[Openmp-commits] [PATCH] D95371: [OpenMP] Use C++ to link libomp.so when LLVM libraries are included

Shilei Tian via Phabricator via Openmp-commits openmp-commits at lists.llvm.org
Mon Jan 25 10:12:50 PST 2021


tianshilei1992 added a subscriber: AndreyChurbanov.
tianshilei1992 added a comment.

In D95371#2520241 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D95371#2520241>, @JonChesterfield wrote:

> Tagging Shilei as this is cmake
>
> Google suggests 'LINKER_LANGUAGE' is how cmake decides whether to invoke 'gcc' or 'g++' to build a library, as an indirect way of asking to link in libstdc++ or similar.
>
> So my guess is that the llvm support library has link time dependencies on c++, so when linking support we also need to link a c++ runtime, and CMake chose 'LINKER_LANGUAGE' as the name to indicate that.
>
> Does that match your understanding of the problem? If so, agreed with the fix.

I think your guess is right. `libomp.so` is probably intended to be a C library (need to add  @AndreyChurbanov here as he is the real expert). Not sure whether it's good to potentially break the rule.


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