[Scons-dev] Clang support

[Russel Winder]

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.

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