Status of llvm-toolchain-3.8?

[Stéphane Glondu]

On 20/10/2017 10:27, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
>> At the moment, llvm-toolchain-3.8 FTBFS with "gcc-7.2: Command not
>> found" and this blocks the OCaml transition.
>>
>> I see there are already bugs open related to gcc-7 (#871011 and
>> #853523), but these do not have recent activity.
>>
>> I also see that this package has been requested to be removed
>> (#873331), but again no recent activity on this bug.
>>
>> Is there any plans to fix llvm-toolchain-3.8?
> 
> I wish we could removed it but it is far from ready (we were blocked by
> the ocaml transition but I dropped the ocaml support to mitigate that)
> I will try to fix that in the next few days.
> Sorry about that

I saw that you removed the OCaml bindings (libllvm-3.8-ocaml-dev) from 
llvm-toolchain-3.8, but there is still libllvm-ocaml-dev (from 
llvm-defaults) that depends on libllvm-3.8-ocaml-dev.

I think you need to remove libllvm-ocaml-dev from llvm-defaults to 
disentangle LLVM and OCaml.

Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane