clang-3.6 installation requires also installation of llvm-3.5

Lawrence Velázquez larryv at macports.org
Wed Sep 10 13:34:37 PDT 2014


On Sep 10, 2014, at 4:22 PM, Marko Käning <MK-MacPorts at techno.ms> wrote:

> I noticed that installing clang-3.6 requires also installation of llvm-3.5
> because dependency ld64 selects it as the default variant.

ld64 and cctools use LLVM for libLTO and llvm-mc.

> Confusing, but there might be a reason for that...
> 
> Well, is it recommended to rather use version 3.5 ATM?

LLVM 3.5 was released a few days ago (although Jeremy hasn't bumped the port to the release version yet), while 3.6 is still very much in development.

vq


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