Re: No such file: LLVMgold.so while packaging ponyc

[Ricardo Wurmus]

ng0 <address@hidden> writes:

> A while ago I started packaging ponylang's compiler "ponyc", which can
> be found here (https://pagure.io/guix-dev/branch/package/langs/ponyc).
> For your convinience this is also attached as a .patch file.
>
> It seems as if it requires the LLVMgold.so file, at least [0]
> and my own errors are telling me this.
>
> We do not provide the LLVMgold.so file. This could be similar to the
> package definition rust has.
>
>   Linking libponyc
>   ar: 
> /gnu/store/cdi08kw7r6r684w8mk0xq0dkgpjhfpmd-gcc-4.9.4-lib/lib/LLVMgold.so: 
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>   ... (lots of similar errors)

It’s not clear to me why it wants to use the LLVM linker, but looking at
the patch you override a lot of variables that might lead to behaviour
like this.

It looks for LLVMgold in GCC’s lib directory, which is clearly wrong.
Maybe you can convince it to use the GCC toolchain’s linker.

-- 
Ricardo

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