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

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 09/07/18 11:13, Graham Inggs wrote:
> Hi Emilio
> 
> On 09/07/2018 10:37, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>> #832798 is fixed now. Is that enough to get julia updated?
> 
> Yes! \o/
> 
>> 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.
> 
> We currently have julia 0.6.3 in experimental building against llvm 3.9.  We
> have tested and it builds against 4.0 as well, but not 5.0 or 6.0.
> 
> Upstream currently have 0.7.0 in beta, and that builds against llvm 6.0.
> 
> We can close this bug with the upload of 0.7.0, unless it helps with the removal
> of 3.8 and 3.9 if we switch to 4.0 right now.

It does; this is blocking the removal of llvm 3.8 right now (and is the last
blocker afaik). If we could move to 4.0 now and to 6.0 later that would be nice.

Thanks,
Emilio