[cfe-users] --sysroot and --gcc-toolchain: any docs etc.?

[Raphael Isemann via cfe-users]

Hi,

we also had this problem and the thing it that clang checks for a
valid GCC/libstdc++ installation by looking for the crtbegin.o file in
the related lib directory. So it doesn't work if you just have the
headers for libstdc++, you also need to recreate the folder-structure
that leads to the crtbegin.o file, otherwise clang doesn't recognize
this as a valid sysroot.

There are some patches on the phabricator to fix this, but I don't
think any of them has landed yet.

Otherwise look in the /test/ directory and grep for "--sysroot" to get
a more examples.

Cheers,

- Raphael


2017-06-13 14:55 GMT+02:00 Paul Smith via cfe-users <cfe-users at lists.llvm.org>:
> Can someone point to any detailed information about how these flags
> work?  I have a custom-compiled version of GCC on Linux and I'm trying
> to build Clang 4.0.0 for this system as well.  I would like it to use
> libstdc++ from my custom-compiled GCC installation to allow linking of
> other libraries built with libstdc++.
>
> I also have a sysroot that I use with GCC so it compiles against a known
> set of system headers and libraries (based on Red Hat 6.3 in this case).
>  This sysroot is directly extracted from a Red Hat system (technically,
> it's extracted from the RPMs) so the layout is straightforward and using
> the --sysroot for GCC locates it without any problems.
>
> However, I can't get clang to work with either of these environments no
> matter what options I provide it.
>
> For --sysroot for example, I have this:
>
>   /my/sysroot/lib
>   /my/sysroot/lib64
>   /my/sysroot/usr/include
>   /my/sysroot/usr/lib
>   /my/sysroot/usr/lib64
>   /my/sysroot/usr/libexec
>
> If I use "gcc --sysroot=/my/sysroot" all works fine.  If I use "clang
> --syroot=mysysroot" no system headers are found.  I used strace on the
> clang binary to try to figure out what it's looking for and it searches
> for all of these things in my sysroot directory:
>
>   /my/sysroot/usr/local/cuda
>   /my/sysroot/usr/local/cuda-8.0
>   /my/sysroot/usr/local/cuda-7.5
>   /my/sysroot/usr/local/cuda-7.0
>   /my/sysroot/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
>   /my/sysroot/lib/x86_64-generic-linux-gnu
>> /my/sysroot/lib/../lib64
>   /my/sysroot/usr/lib/x86_64-generic-linux-gnu
>> /my/sysroot/usr/lib/../lib64
>   /my/sysroot/usr/lib/x86_64-generic-linux-gnu/../../lib64
>> /my/sysroot/lib
>> /my/sysroot/usr/lib
>
> Of these only the four marked exist in my sysroot.  But the big thing
> here is that at no time does clang look for /my/sysroot/usr/include, and
> indeed when the preprocessor tries to find headers it doesn't look
> there, and none of my system header files are found!
>
> Do I have to add these myself with -isystem even when I specify
> --sysroot and the header directory is right there?  Is --sysroot not
> intended to be used to locate header files?
>
>
> For --gcc-toolchain the situation is similar although clang looks in
> MANY more places to try to locate the GCC toolchain.  However, I build
> GCC myself and I have a completely standard installation: what you get
> when you run make / make install after a configure --prefix.  My GCC
> installation looks like:
>
>   /my/gcc/bin
>   /my/gcc/lib/gcc/x86_64-generic-linux-gnu/7.1.0/include
>   /my/gcc/lib64
>   /my/gcc/libexec/gcc/x86_64-generic-linux-gnu/7.1.0
>   /my/gcc/x86_64-generic-linux-gnu/bin
>   /my/gcc/x86_64-generic-linux-gnu/include/c++/7.1.0/...
>   /my/gcc/x86_64-generic-linux-gnu/include/c++/7.1.0/x86_64-generic-linux-gnu/...
>   /my/gcc/x86_64-generic-linux-gnu/lib
>   /my/gcc/x86_64-generic-linux-gnu/lib64
>
> (I have a GCC 6.2 install too and the layout is basically identical.)
> When I use --gcc-toolchain with clang it looks in about 50 different
> directories but doesn't seem to be able to locate this: a standard
> unmodified installation of GCC.  I've tried numerous different values
> for --gcc-toolchain but none seem to work.
>
>
> Am I doing something wrong here?  Or is this just not going to work and
> I'll have to figure out all the include directories, etc. I need by hand
> and add them via -isystem etc. myself?
>
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide!
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