Re: Clang now builds world and kernel, on i386 and amd64

Dmitry Andric wrote:
>On 2010-09-25 21:16, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>> When to expect to get rid of GNU as and other binutils tools?

>Work is progressing steadily on the clang/llvm integrated assembler,
>which removes the need for an external assembler such as gas, and which
>should also reduce compile times further.  This is really in alpha state
>right now, but Roman Divacky (who is one of the active contributors) can
>probably tell more about its progress.
>
>Another important component is of course the linker, but I am not aware
>of a similar project to replace that; excepting gold, but that is a
>GPLv3 project too, unfortunately.

There has been another effort underway for some time:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/elftoolchain/

Perhaps some coordination between those working on llvm in FreeBSD,
and the elftoolchain project, would be helpful?

b.