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authorJohn Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>2022-01-08 12:39:30 -0800
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2022-01-08 12:39:30 -0800
commitbaf290023c22a6f32dd34deb6f22d5b2f75fdc01 (patch)
tree3d3e648a570845b439a11ccb7b32ac7e75ff3931 /pkgs/stdenv
parent0ed184fb68d646408be936af83d52a1d7f23b296 (diff)
parente238f456b8d643d5afe5370e942e82204907d0ef (diff)
Merge pull request #153790 from sternenseemann/cross-bootstrap-logic
Cross bootstrapping logic fixes benefitting llvmPackages
Diffstat (limited to 'pkgs/stdenv')
-rw-r--r--pkgs/stdenv/booter.nix8
-rw-r--r--pkgs/stdenv/cross/default.nix2
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/stdenv/booter.nix b/pkgs/stdenv/booter.nix
index 51d617354e869..f1d07e6461a9c 100644
--- a/pkgs/stdenv/booter.nix
+++ b/pkgs/stdenv/booter.nix
@@ -124,7 +124,13 @@ stageFuns: let
       if buildPackages.stdenv.hasCC
       then
         if buildPackages.stdenv.cc.isClang or false
-        then buildPackages.clang
+        # buildPackages.clang checks targetPackages.stdenv.cc (i. e. this
+        # attribute) to get a sense of the its set's default compiler and
+        # chooses between libc++ and libstdc++ based on that. If we hit this
+        # code here, we'll cause an infinite recursion. Since a set with
+        # clang as its default compiler always means libc++, we can infer this
+        # decision statically.
+        then buildPackages.llvmPackages.libcxxClang
         else buildPackages.gcc
       else
         # This will blow up if anything uses it, but that's OK. The `if
diff --git a/pkgs/stdenv/cross/default.nix b/pkgs/stdenv/cross/default.nix
index 613b8d5304c01..e01ac74599aeb 100644
--- a/pkgs/stdenv/cross/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/stdenv/cross/default.nix
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ in lib.init bootStages ++ [
              # when there is a C compiler and everything should be fine.
              then throw "no C compiler provided for this platform"
            else if crossSystem.isDarwin
-             then buildPackages.llvmPackages.clang
+             then buildPackages.llvmPackages.libcxxClang
            else if crossSystem.useLLVM or false
              then buildPackages.llvmPackages.clangUseLLVM
            else buildPackages.gcc;