[Pkg-julia-devel] Bug#753971: Bug#753971: julia: Please update the llvm dependency from 3.3 to 3.4 (or better, llvm-dev)

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le dimanche 06 juillet 2014 à 23:55 +0200, Sébastien Villemot a écrit :


> Le dimanche 06 juillet 2014 à 19:39 +0200, Sylvestre Ledru a écrit :
> > Source: julia
> > Severity: important
> 
> > I would like to remove llvm-toolchain-3.3 from the archive ASAP.
> > Could you switch to llvm-3.4-dev?
> 
> Unfortunately upstream does not officially support LLVM 3.4 yet, not
> even for the latest development sources (it seems to compile, but there
> are issues, like https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6369 ). For
> the current stable release (0.2) that is in sid, it is even worse, since
> julia FTBFS due to LLVM API changes.
> 
> So at the very least I have to package a development snapshot. I need to
> get several new build dependencies through NEW, so it will take some
> time. Hopefully that will be done before the jessie freeze.

Looking at https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6757, it seems that
even the next major release of Julia (0.3) will still require LLVM 3.3
to be fully functional.

Would that be acceptable for you to ship LLVM 3.3 in Jessie?

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