Bsd Now

Another exciting week on BSDNow, we are queued up with LLVM / Linking news, a look at NetBSD’s scheduler, This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD Kernel and World, and many Ports, can now be linked with lld (https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=23214#c40) “With this change applied I can link the entirety of the FreeBSD/amd64 base system (userland world and kernel) with LLD.” “Rafael's done an initial experimental Poudriere FreeBSD package build with lld head, and found almost 20K out of 26K ports built successfully. I'm now looking at getting CI running to test this on an ongoing basis. But, I think we're at the point where an experimental build makes sense.” Such testing will become much easier once llvm 4.0 is imported into -current “I suggest that during development we collect patches in a local git repo -- for example, I've started here for my Poudriere run https://github.com/emaste/freebsd-ports/commits/ports-lld” “It now looks like libtool is responsible for the majority of my failed / s