The goal was to rebuild of the Debian archive (the distribution) with clang, a new C/C++ compiler. clang is now ready to build software for production (either for C, C++ or Objective-C). This compiler is providing many more warnings and interesting errors than the gcc suite while not carrying the same legacy as gcc. This rebuild has several goals.31169 packages have been rebuild. Among them, 1400 (4.5 %) failed. Most of the errors are explained with test cases.Massive archive rebuild At each new release of llvm/clang, a full rebuild is done of the Debian archive. Rebuilds have been done with clang 2.9, 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2.The rebuilds of Debian with clang. Contribute to opencollab/clang.debian.net development by creating an account on GitHub.Debian Project News - March 31st, 2014. Welcome to this year's sixth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: Debian Installer Jessie Alpha 1 released. Indian federal state of Tamil Nadu adopts Debian derivative BOSS GNU/Linux as official OS. Rebuild of the Debian archive with Clang.The generator will be a part of the Debian Archive Kit used to manage Debian archives on the FTP servers. Rebuild of Debian using Clang. Sylvestre Ledru blogged about an updated rebuild of Debian using Clang. Clang 3.5.0 has been released, and has seen a marked decrease in build failures fromDebian rebuild with clang 10 + some patches. ... Packages in the Debian archive are supposed to build without any issue. If there is new or missing symbols, it is probably clang generating a different library but this library is very likely working as expected (and usable by a program compiled with g++ or clang). ...Clang 3.5.0 has just been released. A new rebuild has been done highlight the progress to get Debian built with clang. tl;dr: Great progress. We decreased from 9.5% to 6.1% of failures. At time of the rebuild with 3.4.2, we had 2040 packages faili…