a plea to change the default std lib clang adds if none is specified on the build line
Kenneth F. Cunningham
ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com
Sun Mar 11 23:08:04 UTC 2018
1 minute summary, no gobbledygook:
When clang sees a build line, if there is no -stdlib=Something specified, it adds -stdlib=libstdc++ on systems up to 10.8, and -stdlib=libc++ on 10.9 and above.
If the older OS is set up to use -stdlib=libc++, then all these ports break, and need painful manual shenanigans.
All this is rendered extinct if clang just defaults to add -stdlib=libc++ on all systems, if there is no -stdlib specified on the build line.
The fix that is needed in clang to accomplish this miraculous feat is literally one single character change.
<https://github.com/kencu/SnowLeopardPorts/blob/master/lang/llvm-5.0/files/9999-patch-clang-5.0-Toolchains-default-always-libcxx.diff>
Think of the tickets that might never need to be dealt with.
I would ask that we consider doing this once we default to libc++ on all clang-based systems.
Ken
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