<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Hal Finkel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hfinkel@anl.gov" target="_blank">hfinkel@anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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> From: "Chandler Carruth" <<a href="mailto:chandlerc@gmail.com">chandlerc@gmail.com</a>><br>
> To: <a href="mailto:llvm-commits@cs.uiuc.edu">llvm-commits@cs.uiuc.edu</a><br>
> Sent: <span class="aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Friday</span></span>, February 28, 2014 4:56:58 AM<br>
> Subject: [llvm] r202486 - [docs] Add a big section with details about how to go about acquiring<br>
><br>
> Author: chandlerc<br>
> Date: Fri Feb 28 04:56:57 2014<br>
> New Revision: 202486<br>
><br>
> URL: <a href="http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=202486&view=rev" target="_blank">http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=202486&view=rev</a><br>
> Log:<br>
> [docs] Add a big section with details about how to go about acquiring<br>
> a more modern host C++ toolchain for Linux distros where folks<br>
> sometimes<br>
> don't have a good option to get one as part of their system.<br>
><br>
> This is a first cut, so feedback, testing, and suggestions are very,<br>
> very welcom. This is one of the last real documentation changes that<br>
> was<br>
> specifically requested prior to switching LLVM and Clang to build in<br>
> C++11 mode by default.<br>
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</div>Why are we advocating downloading gcc 4.8.2 to build Clang/LLVM? Should we not first suggest downloading Clang/LLVM 3.4?<br></blockquote></div><br>Because Clang/LLVM 3.4 don't provide an installed-out-of-the-box well tested standard library implementation for Linux, and as mentioned at the start of the comment section, this is largely a Linux section.</div>
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