[Pkg-julia-devel] Bug#873408: Bug#873408: julia: Please update to llvm-toolchain 4.0 or, better, 5.0

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Hi Graham,

On 25/11/17 08:11, Graham Inggs wrote:
> On 20 November 2017 at 20:54, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu at debian.org> wrote:
>> It should be fine now with 4.0. Would be good if this could move to either
>> unversioned llvm/clang (which defaults to 4.0 now) or to versioned 4.0. Bumping
>> to serious as we want to remove 3.8 soon to reduce the high number of llvm
>> versions that we currently ship.
> 
> Unfortunately julia 0.4.7 doesn't build with llvm/clang 4.0.
> Julia 0.6.1 is available (#839668) but we are blocked by a lack of
> support for https in libgit2 (#832798).
> There is ongoing activity in the upstream PR, so we remain hopeful.

#832798 is fixed now. Is that enough to get julia updated?

Note that we now have llvm 5.0 and 6.0. Updating to a newer version would be
best as we will eventually look at removing 4.0. But for now 4.0 would obviously
be better than 3.8.

Cheers,
Emilio