Re: CVS commit: src

[maya%netbsd.org@localhost]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 04:26:10AM +0000, maya%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
> I might be extrapolating, but AIUI:
> 
> Having two versions of LLVM in use by a binary is going to fail in
> surprising ways.
> 
> Base can be several years old at some point, increasing the odds of the
> LLVM non-compatibility biting us.
> And libGL is very widely used.
> 
> OpenSSL is similar in this regard: replacing OpenSSL with the pkgsrc
> version has problems if something uses Heimdal, which dynamically links
> with base OpenSSL.
> 
> I didn't realize we are not installing libLLVM yet. I was trying to
> avoid having too many outstanding changes, and needed help with the
> generated headers.
> 
> For OpenSSL, we get by by only using base OpenSSL, but the existing
> status for LLVM is that pkgsrc LLVM is used a lot. So it's a ticking
> time bomb unless something is changed.
> 
> I'm very open minded about alternative ways of getting modern Mesa.
> Joerg, what do you think is a working way of doing it?

(This is the phase of the discussion where someone suggests we come up
with an alternative to ELF :)