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

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

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 generates code that runs on the GPU, it is only used on the target
machine.

It is already fairly stripped down, only a couple of the code generation
targets are built. I don't know if we could leave out X86 as well if
doing a gcc build.

It doesn't help that we build it twice for amd64, building with
MKCOMPAT=no will be faster.