[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Changing compilation flags

[Jordan Glover]

My idea was to have general CC=, CXX=... options set in makepkg.conf, then makepkg would use:
CFLAGS_GCC when CC=gcc and CFLAGS_CLANG when CC=clang
This way instead of setting common minimal compatible flags we could enable all features that compiler have and maintainer/user would only need to set different CC= option in PKGBUILD or globally in makepkg.conf (it's already possible but flags have to be also manually changed).

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Changing compilation flags
> From: arch-general at archlinux.org
> To: arch-general at archlinux.org
> Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93 at gmail.com>
> On 07/08/2017 06:53 AM, LoneVVolf wrote:
>> On 08-07-17 04:31, Evangelos Foutras via arch-general wrote:
>>> There are multiple ways the compiler can be selected; two of them are: 1)
>>> exporting CC/CXX in the PKGBUILD and 2) the project"s configure script
>>> picking one of the available compilers. makepkg can"t realistically know
>>> which compiler is going to be used and thus must have only one set of flags
>>> that is supported by both GCC and Clang.
>>>
>>
>> An alternative solution would be to tailor things to the compiler used
>> by the majority (gcc) and to avoid clang as much as possible.
>> That would ocourse require special settings for packages compiled with
>> clang.
>>
>> NOTE : whether that is a good idea is another matter, but it IS an option.
> AIUI that is already what we do, in the sense that gcc is the assumed
> default everywhere, and our (C|CXX|LD)FLAGS are written with the
> assumption that gcc is the default compiler.
> Any packages that need to deviate from the default makepkg.conf flags
> (because they *already* have special settings to use clang, those
> settings are in the project build configuration files) can currently
> modify those flags on a PKGBUILD-by-PKGBUILD basis, or alternatively we
> can try to get clang to deal with basic gcc compatibility in a graceful
> manner.
> --
> Eli Schwartz