[llvm] r202486 - [docs] Add a big section with details about how to go about acquiring

[Chandler Carruth]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Hal Finkel <hfinkel at anl.gov> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Chandler Carruth" <chandlerc at gmail.com>
> > To: llvm-commits at cs.uiuc.edu
> > Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 4:56:58 AM
> > Subject: [llvm] r202486 - [docs] Add a big section with details about
> how to  go about acquiring
> >
> > Author: chandlerc
> > Date: Fri Feb 28 04:56:57 2014
> > New Revision: 202486
> >
> > URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=202486&view=rev
> > Log:
> > [docs] Add a big section with details about how to go about acquiring
> > a more modern host C++ toolchain for Linux distros where folks
> > sometimes
> > don't have a good option to get one as part of their system.
> >
> > This is a first cut, so feedback, testing, and suggestions are very,
> > very welcom. This is one of the last real documentation changes that
> > was
> > specifically requested prior to switching LLVM and Clang to build in
> > C++11 mode by default.
>
> Why are we advocating downloading gcc 4.8.2 to build Clang/LLVM? Should we
> not first suggest downloading Clang/LLVM 3.4?
>

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.
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