Re: help wanted: upgrade llvm to 15

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

dan <i@dan.games> writes:

> hello guix,
>
> i'm totally new to guix and free software development, so bear me if
> i'm doing something wrong.
>
> the 0.10 version of zig just got released[1], with the new self-hosted
> compiler.  during the period of development, i've also submitted a
> pull request[2] for zig, so that we don't need an extra patch file[3]
> to build it on guix.
>
> however, the new zig compiler depends on llvm-15 to build, which is
> unfortunately, not available in guix at the moment.  i personally
> would like to do the work, but lacking the knowledge of both guix and
> llvm makes it almost like an impossible task for me.  so it would be
> really helpful if anyone could help with the packaging of llvm-15.

For other reasons (qt-creator), I've packaged llvm/clang 15, see
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/59237.

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Thanks,
Maxim