[oe] [meta-oe][PATCH 1/6] llvm: update 3.5.2 to have a sane ARM JIT for OpenJDK-8

[Jens Rehsack]

> Am 21.10.2015 um 16:11 schrieb Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com>:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 01:09:44PM +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 12:59:37PM +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 08:48:51PM +0200, Jens Rehsack wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> llvm introduced new JIT technology MCJIT with llvm 3.4 and fixes ARM in 3.5
>>>> (see http://llvm.org/releases/3.5.2/docs/ReleaseNotes.html#changes-to-the-arm-backend).
>>>> 
>>>> Ensure JIT is built with llvm
>>> 
>>> I'm tempted to leave this one after jethro is branched, unless
>>> default LLVM_RELEASE is updated in oe-core/jethro mesa as well.
>>> 
>>> Otherwise everybody will need to set LLVM_RELASE in their mesa bbappend
>>> or we'll need to bbappend it in meta-oe.
>> 
>> Or better, update this to keep 3.3 as llvm is meant to allow multiple
>> versions being built and installed in parallel.
> 
> Another reason to keep 3.3 around is build on older hosts, current 3.5
> fails in Ubuntu-12.04
> 
> | checking whether GCC is new enough... no
> | configure: error:
> | The selected GCC C++ compiler is not new enough to build LLVM. Please upgrade
> | to GCC 4.7. You may pass --disable-compiler-version-checks to configure to
> | bypass these sanity checks.

I'm fine with keeping both. Shall I resend the patch keeping 3.3, or can you
extract the relevant part?

>>> What others think?
>>> 
>>> And was this tested with mesa or just with java?
>>> 
>>> Regards,

Unfortunately (my DISTRO's are without X11) with Java only.

Cheers
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Jens Rehsack - rehsack at gmail.com