Re: Clang c++ include path

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hi,

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>>> When running clang on a c++ program, it cannot find c++ std libraries.
>>> That's because, those libraries path are hardcoded inside g++ compiler
>>> and clang cannot find them.
>>
>> Does this patch help?
>
> I'd like to request that fixes to LLVM/Clang be done on another branch
> for now, or at least that the fixed versions are given a different
> variable name.  The reason is that IceCat depends on Rust which depends
> on Clang, and there is a chain of *18* Rust compilers that must be built
> before IceCat can be built.

How hard would it be to define ‘clang/fixed’ and ‘llvm/fixed’, which
would be variants that are known to be rarely updated?

We would ensure Rust depends on these while still making it possible for
other packages to depend on the latest versions.

Thanks,
Ludo’.