From: Pierre Langlois <pierre.langlois@gmx.com>
To: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
Cc: 54239@debbugs.gnu.org, Pierre Langlois <pierre.langlois@gmx.com>
Subject: [bug#54239] [PATCH v2 1/5] gnu: Add cross-llvm.
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2022 13:02:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874k4cmtny.fsf@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220305092445.27693167@tachikoma.lepiller.eu>
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Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:
> Le Fri, 04 Mar 2022 19:34:07 +0000,
> Pierre Langlois <pierre.langlois@gmx.com> a écrit :
>
>> Hi Julien,
>>
>> Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:
>>
>> > * gnu/packages/llvm.scm (cross-llvm): New variable.
>>
>> Do you really need to define a cross package for LLVM? In my
>> experience it was possible to use the same llvm libraries for native
>> and cross compilation. By default LLVM builds support for all
>> supported targets (provided they are not "experimental" IIRC).
>
> No, I don't think it's required. I only need it so I can define a
> default target that's different from the host.
>
>>
>> Whereas for the clang package, at the moment it does have to be built
>> for a specific target IIUC. I hope that one day we could have the same
>> clang for native and cross compilation in Guix, but I don't think it
>> can work without some serious re-design of how cross-compilation
>> works. I've been trying to think about it but I don't yet have a good
>> understanding of it.
>
> You can use --target to control which target clang builds for (although
> I don't know if our clang package can work like that). I wanted to have
> a default target though, because passing --target all the time is
> cumbersome and we would have to adjust all recipes to pass the flag.
> With the default target set appropriately, (clang-for-target) will
> always produce binaries for the correct architecture, whether
> cross-compiling or not.
>
Ah I see, that makes sense! I suppose a possible alternative could be
to define a wrapper around clang to pass the `--target=<triplet>' option
by default, but that might be a bit ugly (although we already have a
ld-wrapper).
Thanks,
Pierre
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Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-03 16:02 [bug#54239] [PATCH] gnu: Add cross-clang Julien Lepiller
2022-03-03 16:07 ` [bug#54239] [PATCH 1/5] gnu: Add cross-llvm Julien Lepiller
2022-03-03 16:07 ` [bug#54239] [PATCH 2/5] gnu: Add cross-clang Julien Lepiller
2022-03-03 16:07 ` [bug#54239] [PATCH 3/5] gnu: libcxx: Allow cross-compilation Julien Lepiller
2022-03-03 16:07 ` [bug#54239] [PATCH 4/5] gnu: libcxxabi-6: " Julien Lepiller
2022-03-03 16:07 ` [bug#54239] [PATCH 5/5] gnu: Add libcxxabi-9 Julien Lepiller
2022-03-03 16:40 ` [bug#54239] [PATCH] gnu: Add cross-clang Maxime Devos
2022-03-03 18:35 ` Julien Lepiller
2022-03-03 18:59 ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-03 21:11 ` Julien Lepiller
2022-03-04 20:05 ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-03 20:51 ` Pierre Langlois
2022-03-03 21:20 ` Julien Lepiller
2022-03-04 9:59 ` [bug#54239] [PATCH v2 1/5] gnu: Add cross-llvm Julien Lepiller
2022-03-04 9:59 ` [bug#54239] [PATCH v2 2/5] gnu: Add cross-clang Julien Lepiller
2022-03-04 19:53 ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-04 19:54 ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-05 8:30 ` Julien Lepiller
2022-03-04 19:56 ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-04 20:00 ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-05 16:05 ` Pierre Langlois
2022-03-04 9:59 ` [bug#54239] [PATCH v2 3/5] gnu: libcxx: Allow cross-compilation Julien Lepiller
2022-03-04 9:59 ` [bug#54239] [PATCH v2 4/5] gnu: libcxxabi-6: " Julien Lepiller
2022-03-04 9:59 ` [bug#54239] [PATCH v2 5/5] gnu: Add libcxxabi-9 Julien Lepiller
2022-03-04 19:50 ` Maxime Devos
2022-05-21 13:41 ` [bug#54239] [PATCH] gnu: Add cross-clang Ludovic Courtès
2022-07-16 19:44 ` Julien Lepiller
2022-07-16 19:47 ` [bug#54239] [PATCH v3 01/10] guix: Add build-system transformation for target Julien Lepiller
2022-07-16 19:47 ` [bug#54239] [PATCH v3 02/10] gnu: clang-runtime: Fix cross-compilation Julien Lepiller
2022-07-16 19:48 ` [bug#54239] [PATCH v3 03/10] gnu: llvm-9: " Julien Lepiller
2022-07-16 19:48 ` [bug#54239] [PATCH v3 04/10] gnu: Add cross-llvm Julien Lepiller
2022-07-16 19:48 ` [bug#54239] [PATCH v3 05/10] gnu: Add cross-clang Julien Lepiller
2022-07-16 19:48 ` [bug#54239] [PATCH v3 06/10] gnu: libcxx: Allow cross-compilation Julien Lepiller
2022-07-16 19:48 ` [bug#54239] [PATCH v3 07/10] gnu: libcxxabi-6: " Julien Lepiller
2022-07-16 19:48 ` [bug#54239] [PATCH v3 08/10] gnu: Add libcxxabi-9 Julien Lepiller
2022-07-16 19:48 ` [bug#54239] [PATCH v3 09/10] gnu: Add libcxx-12 Julien Lepiller
2022-07-16 19:48 ` [bug#54239] [PATCH v3 10/10] gnu: Add libcxxabi-12 Julien Lepiller
2022-07-19 19:54 ` [bug#54239] [PATCH] gnu: Add cross-clang Maxime Devos
2022-07-19 20:42 ` Julien Lepiller
2022-03-04 19:34 ` [bug#54239] [PATCH v2 1/5] gnu: Add cross-llvm Pierre Langlois
2022-03-05 8:24 ` Julien Lepiller
2022-03-05 13:02 ` Pierre Langlois [this message]
2022-03-05 14:00 ` Pierre Langlois
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