[cfe-dev] Clang is prefixed by triplet?

[Ruben Van Boxem]

2013/1/2 Jordan Rose <jordan_rose at apple.com>

>
> On Dec 30, 2012, at 1:42 , Richard Smith <richard at metafoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Jordan Rose <jordan_rose at apple.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> 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".)
>
>
> I find this surprising -- this configuration *doesn't* look like it's
> building a cross-compiler to me, since target=host. What's the
> justification for a prefix here? Why would leaving target empty
> ("target matches host") give a different prefix from explicitly
> setting target to match host?
>
> I'm not saying this is wrong (and the "don't set a target" advice
> seems good to me), but I don't think the explanation so far justifies
> our behavior.
>
>
> We were a bit surprised too, but that's what autoconf does. I think the
> justification is that if you special-case target=host, there's no way to
> get a target-prefixed compiler on the current host if you *do* want a
> prefix.
>

You could specify exec-prefix which prefixes every executable. The current
situation is stupid. A cross-compiled (build != host) native toolchain
(host==target) is now not the same as one you build in exactly the same way
natively (build==host). Nor is a CMake build the same as a configure build.
FYI, this is not what GCC's autoconf does.

That being said, omitting --target works around this bug.

Thanks,

Ruben
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