Re: wip/llvm etc. usage

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 4 Feb 2024 at 14:40, Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I found myself in a bit of a predicament on one of my NetBSD-current
> boxes. I was almost daily building (off pkgsrc) the github version of
> lang/zig; for this I used to have off-tree llvm-17.0.1 etc. Having
> seen that 17.0.6 was in wip, I switched to it, building llvm, clang
> and lld from wip. Zig is fine, but when I tried to subsequently
> rebuild the rest of the packages, it seems anything that uses llvm
> requires the current pkgsec version, which is 16.0.6. I couldn't find
> a knob in pkgsrc/mk to define the llvm version to use or to attempt
> using the installed version (I tried with HAVE_LLVM=1 in mk.conf, but
> that led firefox 122 to attempt installing gcc8 and then gcc6, whereas
> I already had gcc12 available). I understand this is far from the way
> pkgsrc is supposed to be used, but still if the latest versions are
> available in wip, we should be able to test them with whatever is
> using them...)

Any idea how to switch pkgsrc locally to higher LLVM/Clang version? I
still can't build firefox/thunderbird etc. if I have wip/llvm etc.
installed.

>
> Chavdar
>
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