[OE-core] [meta-clang] clang/LLVM versioning

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 12:15 PM, Martin Kelly <mkelly at xevo.com> wrote:
> On 03/03/2017 12:12 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
>>
>> with  meta-clang there is no desire to support multiple versions of
>> llvm and thats why versioning was dropped however, I would still like
>> to fix the versioning if that makes it more useful.
>>
>
> OK, keeping a single version is certainly simpler. Could you clarify "I
> would still like to fix the versioning if that makes it more useful." ?
>

say if there are other apps which depend on the versioning and
otherwise would need patching to work with llvm from meta-clang, then
lets fix it in meta-clang.

> I may be missing something, but it seems like the llvm-config wrapper
> script's only job is to point to a versioned installed via
> WANT_LLVM_RELEASE. If that's the case, and if we don't intend to support
> multiple versions, wouldn't it be best simply to remove the wrapper? We
> could fix the wrapper instead, but I think that would have to involve
> reintroducing versioning.