Re: building against Clang (was: Legitimate exercise of...)
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> wrote:
> 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.
AFAIK, doxygen is still build using GCC. But it is build with the
clang option turned on:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=721778
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