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Date:   Tue, 1 Mar 2022 16:47:36 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/39] kbuild: Fix clang build
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On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 01:16:04PM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> Also, Kees mentions this is an issue for testing multiple different
> versions of gcc, too.  There perhaps is a way to simplify the builds
> for BOTH toolchains; i.e. a yet-to-be-created shared variable denoting
> the suffix for binaries?  The primary pain point seems to be Debian's
> suffixing scheme; it will suffix GCC, clang, and lld, but not GNU
> binutils IIUC.

Right. Though I think auto-detection still makes sense.

If I do:

	make CC=clang-12 LLVM=1

it'd be nice if it also used ld.lld-12.

> [...]
> Just curious, what prefixes have you observed in the wild?

For me, where ever I built clang, and "/usr/bin"

-- 
Kees Cook