llvm versions on 10.5 3.9->8.0

[Chris Jones]

Hi,

On 18/10/2019 7:00 am, Riccardo Mottola via macports-users wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> when running upgrade of llvm 3.9, I get this message:
> 
> $ sudo port -v upgrade llvm-3.9
> --->  llvm-3.9 is replaced by llvm-8.0
> 
> is this correct? I think that for now the different clang versions would 
> "stay" and so corresponging also llvm.

Yes, that is correct. See last commit at

<https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commits/master/lang/llvm-3.9/Portfile>

llvm and clang 3.9 are obsolete and replaced.

> I have clang and llvm 5.0 on 10.5 on Leopard which is I think the latest 
> I can get.
> 
> 
> another port (cfitsio) pulls in llvm 9.0 and I tried to compile that and 
> it fails. I did not try 8.0 to be honest.

build failures, with complete logs, should be reported at

https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Tickets

Chris