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Rebuild of all Debian packages using Clang instead of gcc


"Rebuild of all Debian packages using Clang instead of gcc"
by Sylvestre Ledru,
on 2013-04-30 00:00:00
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Besides the GNU/Linux kernel, Debian is now able to run with two others kernels (KFreeBSD & HURD). However, in terms of compilation, Debian is still coupled to gcc. This lightning talk will present the results of the rebuild of the whole Debian archive with various clang versions. A necessary step to make Debian compiler agnostic.