[LLVMdev] SolusOS 2 + Clang

Joe Groff arcata at gmail.com
Sat Mar 30 08:30:31 PDT 2013


On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 5:46 AM, Ikey Doherty <ikey at solusos.com> wrote:

> So I tried building various other components with Clang. Notable (and well
> known) failures include GLibc and the kernel. I find it more insulting that
> the standard components put forth by GNU (such as glibc) rely on their own
> non-standard extensions. Simply put: If you want to use one, you must use
> all. The case extends to binutils, gcc, etc.
>

Mainline Linux and glibc are likely to depend on GCC for the foreseeable
future, but you may be interested in investigating the LLVMLinux project,
which has a fork of the kernel that compiles with clang:
http://llvm.linuxfoundation.org/index.php/Main_Page

-Joe
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