Re: building against Clang (was: Legitimate exercise of...)
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- Subject: Re: building against Clang (was: Legitimate exercise of...)
- From: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:02:11 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20141029160211.15411.83396@bastian.jones.dk>
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Quoting Russ Allbery (2014-10-28 17:20:02) at debian-vote@l.d.o
> For the compiler, all of Debian is built with GCC, but some teams do
> test builds with Clang and report bugs, which most maintainers merge
> and some don't.
Speaking of which: Is it Policy or just habit to use GCC over Clang?
I ask because doxygen (and a very few others) links against
libclang1-3.5 "where available" according to the changelog, pulling in
more than 100M on systems using doxygen. libllvm3.5 is also used for
another few, including mesa.
- Jonas
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