Gentoo Websites Logo
Go to: Gentoo Home Documentation Forums Lists Bugs Planet Store Wiki Get Gentoo!
Bug 944482 - LLVM profiles: add separate libstdc++ profiles
Summary: LLVM profiles: add separate libstdc++ profiles
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Profiles (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo Quality Assurance Team
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks: future-profile
  Show dependency tree
 
Reported: 2024-11-22 15:13 UTC by Sam James
Modified: 2024-11-22 15:18 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

See Also:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---


Attachments

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.
Description Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2024-11-22 15:13:11 UTC
We need to rename the existing LLVM profiles to stop people using them when they "just" want to use an LLVM toolchain, not realising they're losing ABI compatibility (see bug 944478).

Such profiles will require gcc as they will use libstdc++.

Do we want to even have such profiles? Is there a point? How do we justify having such profiles (we wouldn't have a profile for different non-ABI breaking CFLAGS, for example)?

I suppose there's value in having LLVM profiles which allow people to enable using clang, or maybe there isn't and we should just tell people to set it manually instead.

The issue being that if we're using libstdc++, people can't depclean gcc, so the value of it is questionable (not useless, but it's not definitely valuable either).

Thoughts?