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

[Martin Jansa]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 04:24:17PM +0200, Jens Rehsack wrote:
> 
> > 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?

Please send updated version.

> >>> 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
> -- 
> Jens Rehsack - rehsack at gmail.com
> 

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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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