On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 16:02 +0100, deeptech71 wrote:
> Recently, I've posted several build errors that only I seemed to run into.
> The errors were based on "incompatible/missing declarations". The bottom line
> of those is actually the following, as I gather:
>
> I, without any compilers in /usr/bin, was trying to build the world and
> kernel by setting CC to basically /home/me/my_compilers/bin/clang.
>
> As the handbook says, the FreeBSD build system uses the compiler in /usr/obj,
> ie., the one "just built for further purposes". As I can see, that compiler
> is specifically crafted to use the include files in ${WORLDTMP}, ie., in
> /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/include (not /usr/include), where "new" headers are
> placed in an early phase of the build process. This is required for when the
> source tree has been "significantly" changed since the last installworld --
> the new code won't build with the headers in /usr/include. In such cases, of
> course compilation breaks when an unaware compiler (eg., /usr/bin/cc,
> /home/me/my_compilers/bin/clang, etc.) is used.
>
> I was able to compile the world and kernel by changing CC from
> /home/me/my_compilers/bin/clang to /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/bin/cc upon the
> first compilation error, by which time the latter compiler was available.
>
> However, after a successful build and install, and no following update of the
> source tree, an external compiler can be used, because by then, the new
> headers will have been installed in /usr/include.
>
> So it appears that specifying an external compiler as CC in /etc/make.conf is
> not supposed to work in general. Life sux. Is there any intention to remedy
> this?
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It appears that you may be just slightly ahead of the curve. You'll
probably be interested in this:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2013-February/014055.html
-- Ian
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