[PATCH] D104831: [clang] Add x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu as a platform triplet

Thu Jun 24 12:03:03 PDT 2021

tstellar added a comment.

In D104831#2838835 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D104831#2838835>, @hoy wrote:

> In D104831#2837712 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D104831#2837712>, @MaskRay wrote:
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>>> Adding the platform tripplet x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu the while list of supported x86_64 triplets so that it can be used with the --gcc-toolchain option to bypass this process and force-pick a given gcc install.
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>> Did you set `--target=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu`? With that I don't think you need another entry in `X86_64Triples`.
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>> `X86_64Triples` and its friends are quite clumsy and many entries are not actually needed. We should shrink the lists.
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>> For https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1824365 I think the right fix is to configure clang with x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu as the default triple.
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> Explicitly specifying target or configure the default build target would work. But I thought  the triple vector being updated is designed for automatic searching and minimizing configure changes across platforms. Is it not like that?
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> In D104831#2837795 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D104831#2837795>, @tstellar wrote:
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>> I'm curious, what kind of system are you running on where you need to use --gcc-toolchain x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu is required.
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> One of our platforms is CentOS 7.

Do you know why clang is not auto-detecting x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu?  I'm just wondering if there is some larger problem.

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