[llvm-dev] Status of the official LLVM APT repositories

[Sylvestre Ledru via llvm-dev]

Le 09/03/2016 à 21:44, Yury V. Zaytsev a écrit :
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2016, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
>
>> This is still maintained. However the cmake transition (for both 3.8
>> and 3.9) wasn't simple... While it should be fine for debian, it
>> might need more work for old Ubuntu (back port of cmake)
>
> Hi Sylvestre,
>
> Thank you for the clarification! Any ETAs on when the APT repositories
> are going to be updated with LLVM 3.8 & 3.9 builds?
>
I fixed the snapshot builds today in Debian itself (
https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/llvm-toolchain-snapshot_1:3.9~svn262954-1.html
)
Hopefully, most of the builds are going to be OK.

> I'm not sure how clean / dirty of a solution you'd be okay with, but
> I'd just point out that CMake developers provide working binary
> tarballs for Linux with every release at https://cmake.org/download/ .
> So, if you are not a purist and/or need the CMake backport for some
> other reasons anyways, it's as simple as just unpacking it on the
> builder and adding to the front of the PATH variable. I use this
> approach on my Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) builders, as a proper backport
> simply isn't worth the effort for my purposes, since they are going to
> be decommissioned rather soon anyways and it's working very nicely.
>
I will give it a try.


Thanks,

Sylvestre