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Hi, |
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I'm proposing to offer a new eselect module "compiler". Briefly |
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speaking, it manages /usr/bin/{cc,c++} as symlinks to C/C++ compilers |
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specified by the user. |
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This is related to my GSoC project: to use clang as the native |
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compiler in Gentoo. While putting "CC=clang" in make.defaults could |
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make portage use clang, symlinking cc/c++ to clang allows build tools |
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like GNU Make and CMake to also use clang as the default compiler, |
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making it feel more "native". |
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This module should be orthogonal to gcc-config. It just switches |
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between gcc, clang or whatever compiler, and doesn't care what version |
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of gcc is in use. Currently gcc, clang and icc are supported in my |
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implementation. |
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Another two programs that might be of interest are /usr/bin/{c89,c99}. |
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Currently they are just scripts that invoke gcc with proper "-std=..." |
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option. I'm not sure if any build tools use them instead of cc. In |
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that case, they probably should be handled by `eselect compiler` as |
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well. |
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A side note: actually there's a small issue with GNU make and I'm |
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trying to fix it. Please refer to |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589894 and |
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https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/1982 |
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