Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 11:17:12 +0300 From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: nonameless@ukr.net Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stop installing /usr/bin/clang Message-ID: <20190816081712.GN2738@kib.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <1565934978.346522000.fx5o0ase@frv52.fwdcdn.com> References: <20190815164815.GK2738@kib.kiev.ua> <1565934978.346522000.fx5o0ase@frv52.fwdcdn.com>
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On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 08:57:13AM +0300, nonameless@ukr.net wrote: > I see the same thing with base /usr/bin/ld and /usr/local/bin/ld from binutils. Yes but a direct ld use is very rare. When it is needed, usually the level of hackery applied is already high enough for the user to already know what she does. I did not see it causing issues practically, while multiple clangs in the path cause real problems. > > --- Original message --- > From: "Konstantin Belousov" <kostikbel@gmail.com> > Date: 15 August 2019, 19:48:37 > > Please look at https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21060 > I propose to stop installing /usr/bin/clang, clang++, clang-cpp. > > It probably does not matter when all your software comes from ports or > packages, but is actually very annoying when developing on FreeBSD. > In particular, you never know which `clang' is called in the user > environment, because it depends on the $PATH elements ordering. > > To clear some confusion: this has nothing to do with not installing > compiler from base, /usr/bin/c{c,++,pp} are still there after the change > is applied. It only to make clang on par with gcc, and to remove one > thing that was quite time-consuming in multi-target environment for me > during porting something large in FreeBSD userspace. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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