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From: Behan Webster <behanw@converseincode.com>
To: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
	llvmlinux@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Cc: Vinicius Tinti <viniciustinti@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to build the kernel with Clang?
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:55:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <542313B1.1020803@converseincode.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140919131021.EE3E.AA925319@jp.panasonic.com>

On 09/18/14 21:10, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Hi Clang folks,
>
>
> I'd like to know the status of Clang support
> in the Linux mainline.
Still a work in progress.  You still need to use the LLVMLinux patches 
on top of mainline to get it to work. We're upstreaming those patches as 
fast as we can.

> I can see some "clang" specific parts in makefiles,
> so I guess Clang is already supported to a certain extent.
Some of the required parts are there. But mainline currently won't 
compile out of the box with clang.

> I just tried to build with "HOSTCC=clang CC=clang"
> but it would not work.
>
> Is there any tips I am missing here?
Try building from our kernel repo listed on http://llvm.linuxfoundation.org

Thanks,

Behan

-- 
Behan Webster
behanw@converseincode.com


      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-24 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-19  4:10 How to build the kernel with Clang? Masahiro Yamada
2014-09-19  7:10 ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-09-24 18:55 ` Behan Webster [this message]

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