[haiku-development] Re: Please don't require cmd:gcc / cmd:g++ in recipes
- From: Jonathan Schleifer <js-haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 00:38:35 +0100
Am 29.03.2014 um 21:48 schrieb Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Am 28/03/2014 22:42, schrieb Jonathan Schleifer:
>> … and use cmd:cc / cmd:c++ instead.
>
> As long as the two aren't completely compatible and interchangeable (as in
> drop-in replacement),
Clang is designed as a drop-in replacement indeed. And that works for most
software quite well. The exception is software that depends on heinous GNU
extensions ;).
> that change doesn't make sense (as they actually could not be built with
> clang), and if they are, it's not needed, as clang could just provide g++ and
> gcc, too.
You can install clang and gcc alongside and have the cc / c++ symlink point to
the compiler you prefer.
> Am I missing something? :-)
Yes, currently, clang calls gcc for linking, which would result in calling
itself then ;).
--
Jonathan
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