[cfe-dev] Clang is prefixed by triplet?

[Ruben Van Boxem]

2012/12/30 Jordan Rose <jordan_rose at apple.com>

>
> On Dec 29, 2012, at 13:54 , Anton Korobeynikov <anton at korobeynikov.info>
> wrote:
>
> >> This is a bug. How can I fix this (i.e. end up with normal "clang.exe"
> >> without renaming everything after the fact)?
> > No, this is normal, since build != host / target and you're definitely
> > asking for cross-build.
>
> Right. We went through a few iterations of this with the Hexagon guys, who
> are actually using prefixes. In your case, the best thing to do is leave
> 'target' empty if you want unprefixed executables; this means "target
> matches host" and AFAIK matches GCC's behavior. (At least, it's what our
> autoconf does. Before 3.2, we had program prefixes completely disabled, so
> you couldn't even set one manually. Now you can set one manually, but you
> also get the default behavior of prefixing for "configurations that look
> like cross-compilers".)
>
> Since Clang doesn't actually need different binaries for different
> targets, there shouldn't be any reason to set 'target' anyway.
>

OK, I'll see what this gives me. Thanks for the suggestion.

Ruben


> >> This is unexpected to say the least, and certainly not a documented
> change.
>
> Since we aren't really using "target" the way GCC does, I'm not sure what
> the "expected" behavior is, but the documentation is a good point. cfe-dev,
> should this be recorded somewhere?
>
> Jordan
>
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