[vlc-devel] Regarding building of VLC using clang/LLVM on Linux/Ubuntu

[Raghavan Santhanam]

What is BN, that you mentioned in your first reply? It looks like there's
already an open VLC bug for this :
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/18329.
Yes, I understood that the issues was with something else - same case with
GCC. I am trying to resolve this issue in general.

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 5:20 AM, Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>
wrote:

> Le 25 mars 2018 20:16:54 GMT+08:00, Raghavan Santhanam <
> raghavanil4m at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >Hello,
> >
> >OK, I am trying to build VLC using clang/LLVM on Ubuntu with necessary
> >environment variables for library
> >dependencies, etc. But, the make command is failing with a segfault
> >while
> >it reaches "vlc-cache-gen" specific
> >command and that doesn't change even after updating Intel microcode,
> >reboot, etc. So, wanted to know
> >the status for Linux/Ubuntu. I saw some reports of clang/VLC
> >compatibility.
> >BTW, what is BN?!
> >
> >- Raghavan
> >
> >2018-03-25 4:35 GMT-07:00 Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> VLC is built using clang on several platforms BN already. I can't
> >comment
> >> on your specific combination.
> >> --
> >> Envoyé de mon appareil Android avec Courriel K-9 Mail. Veuillez
> >excuser ma
> >> brièveté.
> >>
>
> That sounds like a bug in an underlying library with no relationship to
> the compiler. Does it work any better with GCC?
> --
> Envoyé de mon appareil Android avec Courriel K-9 Mail. Veuillez excuser ma
> brièveté.
>
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