Re: Proposal: Improving the LLVM backend by packaging it

On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 18:52:53 -0500 Austin Seipp wrote:

I won't repeat what's on the wiki page too much, but the TL;DR version is: we should start packaging a version of LLVM, and shipping it with e.g. binary distributions of GHC. It's just a lot better for everyone.

I know we're normally fairly hesitant about things like this (shipping external dependencies), but I think it's the only sane thing to do here, and the situation is fairly unique in that it's not actually very complicated to implement or support, I think.

That makes a lot of sense! Gentoo allows user upgrade llvm and ghc independently, which makes syncing harder. Thus Gentoo does not care much about llvm support in ghc. -- Sergei