Changeset 74762a5

Timestamp:

09/13/2020 05:18:01 PM (4 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

794a5d8

Parents:

97386b0

Message:

LLVM: promote clang to recommended, downgrade compiler-rt to optional in the markup. And note that firefox requires clang.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@23708 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• general.ent (modified) (2 diffs)
• general/prog/llvm.xml (modified) (6 diffs)
• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• xsoft/office/libreoffice.xml (modified) (1 diff)

general.ent

@@ -1 +1 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "12">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "13">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "09">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2020">
@@ -7 +7 @@
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "September 12th, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "September 13th, &year;">
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
 <!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->

general/prog/llvm.xml

@@ -11 +11 @@
   <!ENTITY llvm-md5sum        "71c68c526cbbf1674b5aafc5542b336c">
   <!ENTITY llvm-size          "34 MB">
-  <!ENTITY llvm-buildsize     "2.8 GB (with Clang, 659 MB installed, add 16 GB for tests)">
-  <!ENTITY llvm-time          "30 SBU (with Clang and parallelism=4, add 15 SBU for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY llvm-buildsize     "2.8 GB (659 MB installed, add 16 GB for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY llvm-time          "30 SBU (with parallelism=4, add 15 SBU for tests)">
 
   <!ENTITY clang-download-http "&llvm-url;/clang-&llvm-version;.src.tar.xz">
@@ -51 +51 @@
 
     <para>
-      The optional <application>Clang</application> and <application>Compiler
-      RT</application> packages provide new C, C++, Objective C and Objective
-      C++ front-ends and runtime libraries for the
-      <application>LLVM</application> and are required by some packages which
-      use <application>Rust</application>, for example
-      <application>firefox</application>.
+      <application>Clang</application> provides new C, C++, Objective C
+      and Objective C++ front-ends for <application>LLVM</application> and is
+      required by some desktop packages such as <application>firefox</application>
+      and for <application>rust</application> if that is built using the system
+      <application>LLVM</application>.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      The <application>Compiler RT</application> package provides
+      runtime sanitizer and profiling libraries for developers who use
+      <application>Clang</application> and <application>LLVM</application>.
     </para>
 
@@ -95 +100 @@
     </itemizedlist>
 
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Optional Downloads</bridgehead>
-
-      <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Clang</bridgehead>
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Recommended Download</bridgehead>
+      <bridgehead role="recommended" renderas="sect4">Clang</bridgehead>
       <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
         <listitem>
@@ -116 +120 @@
       </itemizedlist>
 
-      <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Compiler RT</bridgehead>
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Optional Download</bridgehead>
+      <bridgehead role="optional" renderas="sect4">Compiler RT</bridgehead>
       <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
         <listitem>
@@ -180 +185 @@
 
     <para>
-      If you have downloaded the optional packages, install them into
+      Install <application>clang</application> into
       the source tree by running the following commands:
     </para>
 
-<screen><userinput>tar -xf ../clang-&llvm-version;.src.tar.xz -C tools          &amp;&amp;
-tar -xf ../compiler-rt-&llvm-version;.src.tar.xz -C projects &amp;&amp;
-
-mv tools/clang-&llvm-version;.src tools/clang &amp;&amp;
+<screen><userinput>tar -xf ../clang-&llvm-version;.src.tar.xz -C tools &amp;&amp;
+mv tools/clang-&llvm-version;.src</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>
+      If you have downloaded <application>compiler-rt</application>,
+      install it into the source tree by running the following commands:
+    </para>
+
+<screen><userinput>tar -xf ../compiler-rt-&llvm-version;.src.tar.xz -C projects &amp;&amp;
 mv projects/compiler-rt-&llvm-version;.src projects/compiler-rt</userinput></screen>
 
@@ -223 +233 @@
 
     <para>
-      If you have downloaded the optional packages, the clang documentation
-      can be built too:
+      The clang documentation can be built too:
     </para>
 

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -43 +43 @@
     -->
     <listitem>
+      <para>September 13th, 2020</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Promote clang in LLVM from Optional to
+          Recommended. Add clang as a required dependency for firefox.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>September 12th, 2020</para>
       <itemizedlist>

xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml

@@ -136 +136 @@
       <xref linkend="gtk2"/>,
       <xref linkend="libnotify"/>,
+      <xref linkend="llvm"/> (clang, used for bindgen even if using gcc),
       <xref linkend="nodejs"/>,
       <xref linkend="nss"/>,

xsoft/office/libreoffice.xml

@@ -212 +212 @@
       <xref linkend="libepoxy"/>,
       <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
-      clang from <xref linkend="llvm"/> (preferred for rendering with skia),
+      <xref linkend="llvm"/> (clang is preferred for rendering with skia),
       <xref linkend="glm"/>,
       <xref linkend="glu"/>,