mxcl/homebrew — Issue #9524: LLVM GCC is going to disappear
Author: mikemcquaid
Created: 2012-01-10 09:42:39+00:00
State: open

LLVM 3.0 includes several major changes and big features:

- llvm-gcc is no longer supported, and not included in the release. We recommend switching to Clang or DragonEgg.

(from http://llvm.org/releases/3.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html)

LLVM GCC is going to disappear at some stage. We should make Clang the first priority compiler, then LLVM-GCC then GCC (if it exists).

As I think I've mentioned in other threads, we should start patching or removing packages that fail with both LLVM-GCC and Clang, not accept new ones that don't work with Clang and make "fails_with_llvm" fall back to Clang rather than GCC.