Re: wip/llvm etc. usage

[Adam <adam%netbsd.org@localhost>]

>> Hi,
>> 
>> I found myself in a bit of a predicament on one of my NetBSD-current
>> boxes. I was almost daily building (off pkgsrc) the github version of
>> lang/zig; for this I used to have off-tree llvm-17.0.1 etc. Having
>> seen that 17.0.6 was in wip, I switched to it, building llvm, clang
>> and lld from wip. Zig is fine, but when I tried to subsequently
>> rebuild the rest of the packages, it seems anything that uses llvm
>> requires the current pkgsec version, which is 16.0.6. I couldn't find
>> a knob in pkgsrc/mk to define the llvm version to use or to attempt
>> using the installed version (I tried with HAVE_LLVM=1 in mk.conf, but
>> that led firefox 122 to attempt installing gcc8 and then gcc6, whereas
>> I already had gcc12 available). I understand this is far from the way
>> pkgsrc is supposed to be used, but still if the latest versions are
>> available in wip, we should be able to test them with whatever is
>> using them...)
> 
> Any idea how to switch pkgsrc locally to higher LLVM/Clang version? I
> still can't build firefox/thunderbird etc. if I have wip/llvm etc.
> installed.

Build the packages from wip, then comment out '<17' in lang/llvm/buildlink3, lang/clang/buildlink3.mk and maybe some other places.

Kind regards,
Adam