Re: News on Clang

On 25 June 2011 00:27, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On fre, 2011-06-24 at 18:02 +0100, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
>> I'm very encouraged by this - Clang is snapping at the heels of GCC
>> here. I'd really like to see Clang as a better supported compiler,
>
> We have a build farm member for Clang:
> http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_history.pl?nm=smew&br=HEAD
>
> That doesn't capture the compile time issues that you described, but
> several other issues that caused the builds to fail altogether have been
> worked out recently, and I'd consider clang 2.9+ to be fully supported
> as of PG 9.1.

I did see the D_GNU_SOURCE issue that you described a while back with
2.8. My bleeding edge Fedora 15 system's yum repository only has 2.8,
for some reason.

I'm glad that you feel we're ready to officially support Clang -
should this be in the 9.1 release notes?

Anyway, since the problem has been narrowed to a specific compiler
flag, and we have a good test case, I'm optimistic that the bug can be
fixed quickly.

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