Re: llvm config

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
>On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 23:23:22 +0100
>Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
>
>> How does the configuration Triple for llvm get setup ?
>> 
>> I have been trying to use lld from pkgsrc and it fails to run because
>> the isOSNetBSD() test returns false. Adding some debug to print out
>> the configuration string just returns "unknown".
>> 
>> Does the native copy of llvm get this correct ? If so, are there patches
>> that we should be adding to pkgsrc ?
>
>llvm does this by running config.guess from cmake and reading the result.
>But, because it is a cmake package and not a GNU autoconf package
>the pkgsrc CONFIG_{GUESS,SUB}_OVERRIDE logic does not kick in.
>
>in the last part of pkgsrc/lang/llvm/Makefile there is a snippet
>which manually overrides config.guess with the pkgsrc one which
>is supposed to have correct platform detection.

Thanks, pkgsrc/llvm does seem to be fine.

There is a bug in pkgsrc lld, I have a fix for it.