Comment 21 for bug 991493

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Chris Bainbridge (chris-bainbridge) wrote :

> FWIW, this just bit me when compiling the Crack language, which was looking for llvm-config, not llvm-config-3.2.

Yes, Xorg is the same, the build script looks for llvm-config and fails otherwise.

> no, alternatives are not used to hide ABI or API changes. You should explicitly specify the tool you want to use.

> Users and upstream want a specific version of LLVM.

I don't see how llvm is different to automake, or cc/c++, or java, which all support update-alternatives?