Opened 8 years ago

Closed 7 years ago

#51439 closed enhancement (duplicate)

ghc: allow building with clang-3.4 or later

Reported by: mojca (Mojca Miklavec) Owned by: neverpanic (Clemens Lang)
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version:
Keywords: Cc:
Port: ghc

Description

I tried building ghc with clang 3.4 on 10.7 which worked fine. I have 3.4 and the latest one installed and it felt like a nuisance to install also version 3.5. It would be great if one could build with either clang compiler that's new enough, not just 3.5.

Change History (5)

comment:1 Changed 8 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

You are referring to the llvm-3.5 library dependency? You are suggesting that the port should offer variants to let the user choose which version of llvm they would like to use?

comment:2 Changed 8 years ago by mojca (Mojca Miklavec)

Yes, I'm referring to:

port:llvm-3.5

and

set llvmPrefix  ${prefix}/libexec/llvm-3.5

in the ghc port.

If this is also a runtime dependency then variants are probably the only way to implement this properly. If it is only a build-time dependency, it would be slightly easier. We do something similar to root6 for example.

If variants are not desired, it would at least make sense to pick either 3.4 (probably the lowest supported one; I didn't try 3.3, so I cannot tell) or the one that is considered "default" (reasonably high one if not the latest one). 3.5 is just weird enough that it causes problems on older OSes while not bringing much benefit over 3.4 (3.4 is often the bare minimum for C++11, so it is often installed).

comment:3 Changed 8 years ago by neverpanic (Clemens Lang)

I'm planning to switch this to llvm-3.7 for the next GHC upgrade.

comment:4 Changed 8 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

Cc: cal@… removed
Owner: changed from kitchen.andy@… to cal@…

Assigning to current maintainer. See #51780.

comment:5 Changed 7 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

Resolution: duplicate
Status: newclosed

Calling this a duplicate of #51439 or #48899.

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