[Pkg-rust-maintainers] FileCheck problem

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le 19/07/2016 à 15:06, Ximin Luo a écrit :
> Seo Sanghyeon:
>> 2016-07-18 23:33 GMT+09:00 Ximin Luo <infinity0 at debian.org>:
>>> If I understand correctly from skimming some things a while back, LLVM 3.8 decided not to expose FileCheck.
>>
>> This is the first time I heard about this.
>>
>>> Rust upstream is still using a patched version of LLVM 3.7.
>>
>> No, Rust upstream is on LLVM 3.8.
>>
>>> I think we don't need to worry about it for the time being - if upstream switches to 3.8 they will have to fix this themselves.
>>
>> Upstream is already on 3.8, and AFAICT FileCheck is only missing in
>> Debian, not in LLVM upstream, so they don't need to fix anything.
>>
>
> I was getting my information from here:
>
> http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/l/llvm-toolchain-3.8/llvm-toolchain-3.8_3.8.1-3_changelog
>
> llvm-toolchain-3.8 (1:3.8~+rc1-1~exp1) experimental; urgency=medium
>
>   * New snapshot release
>   * Cmake migration. Done by Andrew Wilkins. Many thanks to him
>     [..]
>     - Remove LLVM-internal tools (lit, FileCheck, not, tblgen, etc.)
>     - Remove llvm-X.Y-tools package, because it contained only
>       internal tools that are not intended for distribution.
>     [..]
>
>  -- Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org>  Wed, 20 Jan 2016 16:09:01 +0100
>
Yes, it has been removed by Andrew because he considered at the time that it was LLVM internal.

There is this patch but I didn't find the time to integrate it back:
https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=27946

I can bring it back soon if you need it.

S