[cfe-dev] Building clang from source and header/library, > search paths

[Edward Diener]

On 12/17/2013 08:47 PM, Jonathan Roelofs wrote:
> Hi Edward, Hans,
> 
> On 12/17/13, 5:32 PM,
> cfe-dev-request at cs.uiuc.edu wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:35:24 -0800
>> From: Hans Wennborg<hans at chromium.org>
>> To: Edward
>> Diener<eldlistmailingz at tropicsoft.com>
>> Cc: cfe-dev<cfe-dev at cs.uiuc.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [cfe-dev] Building clang from source and header/library
>>     search    paths
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>> Hi Edward,
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Edward Diener
>> <eldlistmailingz at tropicsoft.com>  wrote:
>>> >When clang is built on a Linux distro from the latest source as
>>> >described byhttp://clang.llvm.org/get_started.html  how are the default
>>> >header and library search paths determined ?
>> I don't know exactly how it works, but the code that tries to find the
>> headers and libraries is in lib/Driver/ToolChains.cpp. It's entirely
>> possible that it gets things wrong on some systems.
>>
> Yeah, this happens in GCCInstallationDetector::init() and
> Linux::Linux(). Perhaps your distro has a nonstandard gcc-triple for
> your target that Clang doesn't know about yet? (anymore?)

I am running this on Mageia 3.

Running "clang++ -v -x c++ /dev/null" for packaged clang 3.2 version the
shows this header path:

> #include <...> search starts here:
>  /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-mageia-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../include/c++/4.7.2
>  /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-mageia-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../include/c++/4.7.2/x86_64-mageia-linux-gnu
>  /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-mageia-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../include/c++/4.7.2/backward
>  /usr/local/include
>  /usr/bin/../lib/clang/3.2/include
>  /usr/include

while running "./clang++ -v -x c++ /dev/null" for the built clang 3.5
version the shows this header path:

> #include <...> search starts here:                                                                                                         
>  /usr/local/include                                                                                                                        
>  /home/mgeldiener/dev/clang/build/Debug+Asserts/bin/../lib/clang/3.5/include
>  /usr/include

In other words the built 3.5 version does not find the
'/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-mageia-linux-gnu/4.7.2' path off of which the gcc
headers reside. Is there a way to fix that when building the latest
version of clang from the source without having to change any source
files ? Is there a reason why building the latest version does not find
the 'gcc triple' whereas the packaged 3.2 version of clang does find it ?