[Scons-dev] Clang support

William Blevins wblevins001 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 5 18:58:53 EST 2015


Im not sure what percentage of linux devs use clang vs gcc, but my
personal experience is gcc is more widely used.

Yet another gcc user,
William
On Jan 5, 2015 6:51 PM, "Russel Winder" <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 13:48 +0100, Paweł Tomulik wrote:
> […]
> > I have a project where I just set construction variables CC=clang and
> > CXX=clang++ and it works well (I check existence of these compilers with
> > SConf, so I don't need the Tool machinery to search for the compiler
> > executables).
> >
> > Some time ago I also wrote these two tools:
> >
> > https://github.com/ptomulik/scons-tool-clang
> > https://github.com/ptomulik/scons-tool-clangpp
> >
> > but for some (forgotten) reason I don't use them :)
>
> This may work fine, but if SCons does not have tools called clang, clang
> ++, clanglink *AND* detection of clang for the cc, c++ and link tools,
> then SCons has no credible support for Clang.
>
> My real question is whether SCons should prefer clang over gcc for
> Linux.
>
> --
> Russel.
>
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