Re: defaulting to clang on FreeBSD 10.x

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2015-03-22 at 18:12 GMT, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> To add to this: It has been a long standing issues that most of the
> TOOLS_PLATFORM.* stuff should not be hard-coded at all, but set by
> bootstrap. One of the big reasons it is not done is because certain
> people always insist that NetBSD must be handled specially without
> bootstrap. The other big reason is noone has sit down to do it.
> Stop adding any more complexity to the platform specific files. It
> is a step into the wrong direction.

I disagree, this would make our illumos bootstrap kits incompatible
across distributions, and may do the same with Linux.  It would be a
big step backwards to lose the ability to distribute one set of
packages and bootstrap kit which work across all variants of the same
OPSYS, thanks to handling the few differences with some ".if exists()"
logic.

It also doesn't seem to be a great win for user-friendliness moving
over a hundred TOOLS_PLATFORM.* lines into mk.conf

And what happens when you want to introduce a new tool?  Force
everyone to re-bootstrap?

It's quite possible I'm missing something here, as I see no benefit at
all in doing this.

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