Bug#963109: libreoffice: Please drop clang from build-dependencies for alpha and ia64

Am 19. Juni 2020 12:52:40 MESZ schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>:
>So nothing that keeps us from using GCC in cases where clang is not
>available.

Correct. Except staying as close as possible with upstream.

>>> Not sure why you want to enforce architectures off libreoffice when
>>> it’s technically not necessary.
>> 
>> Read the comment.
>
>That's just your personal way of implementing it. It's not mandatory to
>do it
>this way. You can just create a simple whitelist where clang is always
>enabled
>and disabled on any other architecture. It's not really rocket science.

Trust me, I know. I do this for all kind of stuff in rules (e.g. for skia itself, see below)

>It's also not a given that clang generates faster code on _any_ given
>architecture,
>it might be true for x86_64, but not necessarily for armhf or s390x.

s390x doesn't matter here at all as it is be and skia doesn't support be at all. Thus we get --disable-skia and thus no clang usage.

But generally you're right, but I am trying to stay as close upstream as possible here.

Regards

Rene