From: Theo Buehler <tb@theobuehler.org>
Subject: Re: lang/zig 0.15.1 update
To: Brandon Mercer <bmercer@eutonian.com>, Sebastien Marie <semarie@kapouay.eu.org>, ports@openbsd.org, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2025 13:50:54 +0200

On Sat, Sep 06, 2025 at 11:23:03AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2025/09/05 19:55, Brandon Mercer wrote:
> > > 16		used only for mozillas on aarch64
> > 
> > Is it possible or benefitial to do the work to port the mozillas away
> > from the llvm 16 dependency so we can do away with this "older" one? 
> 
> would be beneficial, I don't know whether it's possible.

The tracking bug is here:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1973016

Chasing this down would be most welcome.

> we could at least set 16 to ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=aarch64, which is built on
> fadt machines anyway.

It already is.

> skipping over llvm 20 and going straight to 21 would generally seem
> not a bad idea as far as the ports tree and bulk builds goes.

Agreed.