FS#44885 - Make clang package independent with gcc

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Kassian Sun (Ksmata) - Thursday, 07 May 2015, 09:13 GMT
Last edited by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Thursday, 07 May 2015, 11:12 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Clang and LLVM is mature enough to get their own places in our repository.
Arch is not Gentoo, so there seems to be no need to worry about end users' experience without gcc.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Thursday, 07 May 2015, 11:12 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  Not feasible.
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Thursday, 07 May 2015, 10:14 GMT
Feel free to uninstall gcc with "pacman -Rdd" and see how t goes for you...
Comment by Kassian Sun (Ksmata) - Thursday, 07 May 2015, 10:52 GMT
So clang depends on gnu's ld? Well I don't know what's happening, maybe clang's developer are just too lazy:)
Well, I will forget what I said today, sad.
Comment by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Thursday, 07 May 2015, 11:01 GMT
As far as I'm aware, clang uses the crtbegin.o, crtbeginS.o, crtbeginT.o, crtend.o and crtendS.o files from GCC, as well as its runtime library (libgcc, libgcc_s) and C++ library (libstdc++).

So, while it doesn't call gcc for assembling/linking, it needs other stuff provided by GCC. Dropping GCC completely could only happen on a distro-level, not just the clang package.

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