[Pkg-gambas-devel] Bug#803647: Bug#803647: No solution for llvm and gambas (for now)

[Ian Haywood]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 9:47 PM, Gianfranco Costamagna
<locutusofborg at debian.org> wrote:
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> Hi, unfortunately the bug report clearly shows that the features used
> are not compatible with recent llvm
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> "LLVM 3.6 decided to replace their old JIT API by a new incompatible
> one, and so broke programs like Gambas that relied on them.
> There is no solution at the moment."
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> so, since we don't know how to patch, and the component is optional I
> think I'll leave the current status quo, and maybe disable llvm on
> gambas if you eventually want to remove it from Debian.
generally when a project radically changes its API, the old version is
maintained for
some time (often years, think python 2.x and the old Linux kernels)
llvm-3.5 is still an available package in stretch and jessie, wouldn't
it be possible to have a specific dependency on llvm-3.5, until
upstream point gb.jit to 3.6?

Ian