bug#25879: [PATCH] gnu: Add LLVM and CLANG 3.9.1.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 09:06:28PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> > Well, actually, this is just the latest release, so maybe I should
>> > update the 3.8.1 recipe to3.9.1 instead.  WDYT?
>>
>> If the other users of LLVM and Clang (as per ‘guix refresh -l llvm’) can
>> cope with it, upgrading sounds better indeed.  Could you check if that
>> is the case?
>
> With LLVM it is probably a good idea to keep the major versions as
> packages tend to lag after latest. Many compiler writers are a bit
> behind and sometimes people want to use older compilers (like with
> Julia).

I agree.

@Roel: I see that this patch hasn’t been pushed yet.  Is there anything
missing or was it just forgotten?

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Ricardo

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