[Scons-dev] Clang support

[Michael Jarvis]

I use both clang and gcc. They both have their pros and cons.



On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:58 PM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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