Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 2 May 2021 20:55:10 +0300 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: Very slow clang kernel config .. |
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On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 09:49:44AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 9:45 AM Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > Mesa and PostgreSQL are among the packages that do use libLLVM.so, > > this is a popular library for implementing compilers and JITs. > > Yes, and it's entirely reasonable to update those packages if it turns > out libLLVM has a bug in it. > > Because we're talking about a small handful of packages, not some kind > of "everything" model. > > So again, what's your point?
Two dozen other packages are linking directly with libLLVM.so.
Are you happy about libclang.so being a shared library? libclang.so uses libLLVM.so, which adds another 10 indirect users.
Debian ships 30k source packages that build 60k binary packages, with 3 years of security support (plus 2 years LTS).
It makes things a lot easier from a distribution point of view if a bug in libLLVM can be fixed just there, instead of having to additionally find and rebuild the 30 or more source packages building binary packages that use libLLVM in a security update for a stable release of a distribution.
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