Re: [PATCH] gnu: clang-runtime: New package, propagated by clang.

[Andy Wingo]

On Tue 25 Aug 2015 00:21, Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:

> Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> From abca4b3b20a94c16131f521e35c63ffaf50ec45b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Andy Wingo <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 09:21:09 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: clang-runtime: New package, propagated by clang.
>
> A bit late, since I already pushed it, but I noticed that Debian doesn't
> have any "clang-runtime" package, but has an "llvm-runtime" package.  Is
> that what this package should be called?

I don't think so but I don't know.  Upstream the package is called
compiler-rt.  AFAICT it's really for the C/C++ front end as its job is
mostly to support "sanitizers" for C/C++ semantics, and indeed in Guix
it's used by the clang (cfe) package and not by the llvm package.  Happy
to change names of course, but it seems to me that clang-runtime is the
better name, and given that upstream doesn't give us a usable name I
think we're free to choose whatever we like.

Cheers,

Andy