Re: clang patch to build on solaris

[Hans Rosenfeld <hans%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 06:06:28PM +0100, Richard PALO wrote:
> I believe this may need a bit wider testing on solaris, but with
> this patched Makefile pkgsrc clang seems to build okay and work, at
> least on the few programs I've tested.
> 
> I've built with pkgsrc gcc 4.8.2 and builtin gcc 4.7.3 on OpenIndiana.

Wow, great work!

> NB: solaris `ld' is found through paths, so it is probably neither a
> good idea to use or build with */gnu/bin in your path.
> 
> This could probably be fixed by hardcoding the path to ld in place
> of the call to 'getToolChain().GetProgramPath("ld")' in
> clang/lib/Driver/Tools.cpp but I obstained from doing that for
> now...

I would suggest doing exactly that, as you really need Solaris ld on
anything SunOS. So GNU ld should never be picked up accidentally.


Hans


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