RFC: Building RTEMS/RISC-V with LLVM/Clang

[Hesham Almatary]

Hi Sebastian,

On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 12:48, Sebastian Huber
<sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I work currently on a new build system based on waf and Doorstop. It
> would be good to have the clang support at the top level of the build
> system. Doing this for the current build system is probably a waste of
> time. In general, I am fine with your changes.
>
I agree autotools isn't that great with llvm/clang, but the changes aren't
that much and it would be nice to CI from upstream RTEMS rather than
my fork.

> It would be great if you could try to figure out how this works with
> waf. Please let me know if you have time for this.
>
Sure, that's a good opportunity to learn about waf, so I'll give it a try.

> You can find a prototype implementation of the new build system here:
>
> https://git.rtems.org/sebh/rtems.git/commit/?h=build
>
> I do forced pushes to this branch.
>
> You can test it with:
>
> git clone git://git.rtems.org/sebh/rtems.git
> cd rtems
> git checkout --track origin/build
> ./waf bsp_defaults --rtems-bsps=riscv > bsps.ini
> ./waf configure
> ./waf
>
> Adding the clang support could be done with a command line option, see
> function options() in wscript. Depending on the option, clang instead of
> gcc must be found in configure().
>
Thanks for the hints. I'll give it a go.

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