[llvm-dev] [lldb-dev] LLVM 7.0.0 Release

[Andrew Kelley via llvm-dev]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 2:18 PM Jacob Carlborg via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> On 2018-09-20 10:01, Hans Wennborg via llvm-dev wrote:
>
> > Yes, it's a manual process. The binaries are build and tested by
> > volunteers, and the set of folks who volunteers differs a little
> > between releases.
>
> I would assume LLVM has some kind of CI infrastructure. That should be
> able to build the release binaries.
>
> > The pre-built binaries are really mostly for users who want to try out
> > the release quickly. We expect most users to get the compiler through
> > their distro (except on Windows where these are the official
> > binaries).
>
> The problem is, depending on which operating system and version you use
> you might not get updates. For example, Travis CI is stuck at an ancient
> version of Ubuntu and only provides LLVM 5.0, as far as I can see.
>

apt.llvm.org works fine for travis. See for example
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/073f7ebb0e2168d04212fd855235c3543f86a2be/ci/travis_linux_before_install


>
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> /Jacob Carlborg
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