Re: RFT: Please help testing the llvm/clang 3.5.0 import

From: Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 07:22:59 -0700
> On Dec 18, 2014, at 6:34 AM, owner-freebsd-arm_at_freebsd.org wrote:
> 
> 
> Dimitry Andric writes:
> 
>>>   - Could a "MK_CLANG_ALL_TARGETS" or something similar option be
>>> added to src.opts.mk to fine tune this process for those of us who
>>> don't want to build a cross-compile toolchain every iteration for our
>>> target MACHINE/MACHINE_ARCH?
>> 
>> I would be fine with something like this, as long as it is turned off by
>> default, or if it is only used for the bootstrap stages.  It is actually
>> an extremely useful feature of clang that you can target multiple
>> architectures with one compiler binary.
> 
> 	Point of information: this seems useful for developers, and
> (almost entirely) useless for everyone else.  Are there other
> cohorts that want this badly?
> 	If that's correct, and there's a simple switch for
> configuration ... why should this default to what's useful for the
> (much?) smaller number of people?  About what am I ignorant?

Only people working on a single binary of clang to build all architectures
are interested, which is a vanishingly small number. There’s little point
to build this stuff even for hard-core developers.

Warner


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