[Pkg-clamav-devel] build clamav with system LLVM

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

Hi,

On 02.05.2014 22:09, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Friday, May 02, 2014 20:45:55 Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
>> On 02.05.2014 19:57, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>>> I suspect they would appreciate the patch since using the system LLVM (or
>>> at least updating to a newer one) is definitely in their plans.
>>
>> I hope so. LLVM 2.8 is really a bit outdated (from 2010).
>
> I harassed people on #clamav and got this:

Thanks.

> <lattera> I could be wrong... llvm's not my area of expertise
> <lattera> I asked my coworker, Kevin, to take a look at that bugzilla ticket
> <lattera> after quick glance, he says he likes the patch overall
>
> That's encouraging, but I'm not entirely comfortable yet (from what I know the
> patch looks good too).  How about we upload this patch to experimental and
> then we can see how it works out on multiple architectures?  Once upstream
> reviews/acks the patch and we see how it works then we can go to unstable.

An upload to experimental seems like a good idea.
But keep in mind that experimental defaults to LLVM 3.4, while unstable 
still defaults to LLVM 3.3 (and wheezy to LLVM 3.0).

Best regards,
Andreas