Re: LLVM / clang

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: "P. Caillaud" <peufeu@peufeu.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-06-10T13:52:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Quick testing shows that clang doesn't get through the configure stage
> on this Debian system -- it looks like some amount of better integration
> with glibc might be needed.  Building with llvm-gcc works fine, but I
> understand that using llvm-gcc with native code generation isn't all
> that different from using gcc itself, so that's not a surprising result.
> The only issue is that the float8 regression test fails, so it is
> apparently not *exactly* the same.

There's a buildfarm animal using llvm-gcc, and it passes just fine ...
so the float8 failure sounds to me like another integration problem.

			regards, tom lane