• DevSummit
• 201205
• Toolchain

FreeBSD Developer Summit Toolchain Working Group

Thursday May 10th from 11-12 in LMX 122.

Overview

As part of the May 2012 FreeBSD developer summit, this working group will focus on the FreeBSD toolchain. This is a by-invitation event open to developer summit attendees interested in this topic. This working group is to discuss the status and issues of the FreeBSD base system toolchain. It is an umbrella for a number of independent efforts working on toolchain enhancements, including support for clang.

If you would like to participate, contact the chairperson below and CC devsummit@. You will be then added to this page. Please include a list of things you want to talk about or the areas you are interested in. This helps in planning the session and to bring people together with common interests.

Goals

• Obtain an up to date summary of toolchain status and progress.
• Produce a list of toolchain projects currently underway.
• Produce a list of toolchain gaps with a focus on improving testing of

Specific Topics

• Clang Status in Base
• Clang Status in Ports
• Missing pieces for a GPL free 10.x
• External toolchain support
• BSDL linker progress

Attendees

Notes

• Agenda
  • Status
  • Ports discussion
• Status
  • Clang ~3.1 in head
  • Libc++ in head
    • Optional in 9.1
  • BSD ELF tools stable release
    • Merge needed
  • LLDB coming along
  • Linker coming along
  • ~3500 broken ports
  • With_clang_as_cc
    • Ports wants switchable compiler first
    • Some talk of setting a schedule
  • External tc stage one in projects