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

[Sylvestre Ledru]

On 07/07/2014 00:12, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> 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?
>
Not really ... I am planning to ship with llvm 3.4 & 3.5.
I don't want to third instance just for a single package.

Sylvestre


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