On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 20:21:55 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <i...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> The idea of setting up general "toolchains" in the native build was good, >> but it turned out that we really only need a single toolchain, with a single >> twist: if it should use CC or CPP to link. This is better described by a >> specific argument to SetupNativeCompilation, LANG := C++ or LANG := C (the >> default). >> >> There is a single exception to this rule, and that is if we want to compile >> for the build platform rather than the target platform. (This is only done >> for adlc) To keep expressing this difference, introduce TARGET_TYPE := BUILD >> (or TARGET_TYPE := TARGET, the default). >> >> The final odd-case was the hack for building hsdis/bin on mingw. This can be >> resolved using direct variables to SetupNativeCompilation, instead of first >> creating a toolchain. >> >> Doing this refactoring will simplify the SetupNativeCompilation code, and >> make it much clearer if we use the C or C++ linker. > > Magnus Ihse Bursie has updated the pull request incrementally with one > additional commit since the last revision: > > Rename LANG to LINK_TYPE Just a small question by the way: All those new parameters to SetupNativeCompilation, were they always there and the comments about them were just missing from the documentation about the function? ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17986#issuecomment-1966025499
