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Re: What to do with base X11 for netbsd-9 ?



> On May 29, 2019, at 5:36 AM, Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> I am curious why we need to apparently build all of the LLVM stuff for a
> release?  If LLVM is needed as part of the build, it should be built as
> host tools;  I don't understand why we _also_ need to build LLVM for the
> target machine.  (And, if the answer to this is YES, we should probably
> find a way to build-and-install a minimal subset, not the whole thing!)

LLVM is used at run-time in the graphics pipeline for some drivers.

-- thorpej



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