[llvm-dev] Clang-12 fails build on MacOS

[Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL via llvm-dev]

You misunderstood my message.

 

My apologies, and thank you for clarifying.

 

 I never intended to leave it at the broken state for MacPort but I am leaning towards finding a correct solution while I suggest some feasible workaround for you. 

 

Thank you!

But it seems that adding a custom target in CMake via add_custom_target() would fix the MacPort version, while staying harmless on the other platforms? Or am I missing something…?

 

The workaround I provide early will not break M1 mac support since arm64e architecture is experimental and not ABI stable and it is only meant for security researchers to evaluate the implementation.

 

It looks like Macports team would prefer a different workaround.

 

After some closer look at the build, it seems that the problem only occurs in makefile build, while ninja doesn't even have the race condition since the create_symlink command only ran once. 

 

Yes, I concur (though the Macports maintainers of the Clang port are the “authoritative” source here, not me 😉).

 

This might be a limitation/bug on the makefile generator, which it lists create_symlink command in both: projects/compiler-rt/lib/builtins/CMakeFiles/clang_rt.builtins_arm64_osx.dir/build.make and projects/compiler-rt/lib/builtins/CMakeFiles/clang_rt.builtins_arm64e_osx.dir/build.make. I don't know enough about CMake to comment on that. 

 

Neither do I. But it looks like that bug (or limitation? Whatever it might be…) gets side-stepped by add_custom_target(). Which is why I’m advocating for applying that workaround now, until (and if!) a better one arrives.

 

We also do not have CI system to test makefile support on darwin at all so we might not catch problem of this kind in the future. It might be better to investigate to switch to ninja build to avoid troubles down the road.

 

Understood. Unfortunately, moving to ninja is not my call at all. ☹

I suspect that the maintainers are concerned that there already are many dependencies (e.g., full Perl) required to build Clang. Not sure if they’d be happy about pulling ninja in as well – plus, ninja may require other python packages installed to run the build…?

 

Thanks!

 

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