Bug#904688: qttools-opensource-src: FTBFS: please drop the libclang-dev B-D on some architectures
> Control: severity -1 wishlist
Setting a bug which breaks multiple architectures is somewhat of an
understatement.
> I haven't looked at the code but it seems that this dependency is now
> required in order to build qdoc, so reducing the severity to wishlist.
Well, it's a documentation tool. It should just be possible to disable
the documentation tool on the affected architectures.
> I don't know if it's possible at all to build everything but qdoc. And the
> effect of this could be many packages starting to FTBFS.
Unlikely. I don't know any project that has a hard dependency on documentation.
> The only way around I see is submitting patches upstream to avoid clanf
> usage. Remember they need to go directly to upstream, we can't forward then
> except for very small changes.
Strange policy. Lots of people here take patches from the bugtracker and
forward them upstream. In fact, that's what the official Debian documentation
says.
Either way, there are plans to make LLVM available on more targets, there are
already branches working on alpha, m68k, riscv64 and more. Until then, it
would be nice if Qt wouldn't have a hard dependency on it solely to build
documentation.
Adrian
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