[cfe-dev] ***SPAM*** Re: Changing the way Clang's driver computes the library search paths on Linux

[Marc J. Driftmeyer]

Thanks for all your work. It's very much appreciated.

- Marc

On 10/02/2011 11:57 PM, Chandler Carruth wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Marc J. Driftmeyer 
> <mjd at reanimality.com <mailto:mjd at reanimality.com>> wrote:
>
>     Should not this change include a fs check for
>     /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/crt1.o as one of the else if options,
>     not to mention the rest of the architectures Debian supports and
>     builds clang against?
>
>
> Currently, I'm trying to get Clang to as closely match the GCC 
> mainline behavior as I can, without breaking existing distros.
>
> I'm hoping to have time to extend this logic to deal with most 
> distros, if not all.
>
> Currently, Clang doesn't handle Debian's multiarch setup correctly at 
> all. I'm going to try to get to this, but its on the bottom of my 
> immediate list because we don't have any reasonable existing support.
>
>
> For reference, I specifically checked mainline GCC to see whether it 
> cared about crt1.o or not, and it didn't. It only cared whether the 
> directory existed. I've faithfully reproduced that here for better or 
> worse.
>
> Now, keep in mind, I'm currently only poking the library search paths. 
> I'm also going to look at the code to actually locate crt1.o etc, 
> that's still to come.

-- 
Marc J. Driftmeyer
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