llvm 3.6.0 should be released soon, and I added a masked ebuild for rc3 in tree for those that want to test As usual it breaks a few things, including mesa. Adding this patch made the compilation pass, but I did not test further: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/src/gallium/auxiliary/gallivm/lp_bld_misc.cpp?id=ef7e0b39a24966526b102643523feac765771842
It's the policy of upstream to not add support for new versions of LLVM into stable releases. See http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2015-February/076234.html Basically the reasoning is that fixing the compile errors (i.e., API changes) is often not sufficient, and without testing you might get something much worse. I'm not sure if deviating from that policy in Gentoo is what we should do. Mesa 10.5-rc1 has been released (not yet in portage), which supports llvm-3.6.0. The final release is scheduled for March 6th. I'll have some 10.5 rcs in the tree before that as well. So, I'm not sure what we should do. Anyone have any thoughts?
3.6.0 is now in tree (masked) and 10.5_rc compiles fine with it, I did not do run tests though. Do you prefer I keep llvm masked until 10.5 final release to sort out dependencies/blockers?
It sounds like 10.4.6 will support llvm-3.6.0. Both 10.4.6 and 10.5.0 should be released on Friday. Leaving llvm-3.6.0 masked until both of these are in the tree sounds like a good plan. Thanks Bernard!
The 10.4.6 and 10.5.0 releases were botched -- they missed a bunch of commits. And... 10.4.x will not support llvm-3.6.0. I think since 10.5.0_rc3 is in the tree, you should be safe to unmask llvm-3.6.0 at least as far as Mesa is concerned. chithead, should we put a <llvm-3.6.0 version dependence on <mesa-10.5?
OK, llvm 3.6.0 is unmasked now, I'll leave the bug open if you want to update blockers
> chithead, should we put a <llvm-3.6.0 version dependence on <mesa-10.5? Please, do!
Dependencies have been updated for versions that won't build against llvm-3.6
