On 05-05-2026 15:36, Richard Purdie wrote:
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On Tue, 2026-05-05 at 15:26 +0530, Varatharajan, Deepesh via 
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On 05-05-2026 15:06, Richard Purdie wrote:
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On Tue, 2026-05-05 at 01:16 -0700, Varatharajan, Deepesh via 
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From: Deepesh Varatharajan <[email protected]>

Target LLVM tools are installed in the sysroot because they are needed
for llvm-lit to run tests. However, this leads Rust to pick up a target
llvm-config that cannot run on the host. Overwrite it with the native
llvm-config so Rust can execute it correctly.

Signed-off-by: Deepesh Varatharajan <[email protected]>
---
   meta/recipes-devtools/rust/rust_1.94.1.bb | 5 +++--
   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/rust/rust_1.94.1.bb 
b/meta/recipes-devtools/rust/rust_1.94.1.bb
index 3eb2a36406..e4a9f20e27 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/rust/rust_1.94.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/rust/rust_1.94.1.bb
@@ -238,9 +238,10 @@ rust_runx () {

       # Copy the natively built llvm-config into the target so we can run it. 
Horrible,
       # but works!
-    if [ ${RUST_ALTERNATE_EXE_PATH_NATIVE} != ${RUST_ALTERNATE_EXE_PATH} -a ! 
-f ${RUST_ALTERNATE_EXE_PATH} ]; then
+    if [ ${RUST_ALTERNATE_EXE_PATH_NATIVE} != ${RUST_ALTERNATE_EXE_PATH} ]; 
then
           mkdir -p `dirname ${RUST_ALTERNATE_EXE_PATH}`
-        cp ${RUST_ALTERNATE_EXE_PATH_NATIVE} ${RUST_ALTERNATE_EXE_PATH}
+        rm -f ${RUST_ALTERNATE_EXE_PATH}
+        cp -f ${RUST_ALTERNATE_EXE_PATH_NATIVE} ${RUST_ALTERNATE_EXE_PATH}
           patchelf --remove-rpath ${RUST_ALTERNATE_EXE_PATH}
       fi
This appears to be a consequence of the new install in "clang: Enable
cmake flags for llvm, clang, lld tests". Perhaps we should just not
install llvm-config there if it is going to cause problems and need to
be overwritten?
Yes, this is due to the new installations. We now need the target
llvm-config to run the Clang
family test suite inside QEMU for the target. Previously, we didn’t
install LLVM target tools,
but running the Clang test suite for the target requires these tools to
be present in bin so
that llvm-lit can use them.

Also, the existing check is somewhat odd. Even if llvm-config exists in
${RUST_ALTERNATE_EXE_PATH},
it can’t be used for building Rust because that version is built for the
target. Therefore,
overriding it with the native llvm-config makes sense.
We simply can't mix target and native binaries like this.

Think about what happens if you take target sstate built on x86-64 and
reuse it on an aarch64 host system.

Cheers,

Richard
Yes, I see your point about mixing native and target binaries and the potential impact on sstate reuse.

However, this behavior already existed before this change. We were copying the native llvm-config into the target sysroot when the paths differed. The only difference here is that we now always overwrite it
instead of skipping when a file already exists.

With the recent Clang changes, a target llvm-config is now installed, which causes the previous conditional check to skip the copy. That leads to Rust picking up a target-built llvm-config, which is not usable for
building Rust.

So this change doesn’t introduce new mixing. It ensures we consistently use the native llvm-config, which
is what the original logic intended. Did I misunderstood something ?

Regards,
Deepesh


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