arphaman added a comment.

In D54630#1302566 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D54630#1302566>, @ilya-biryukov 
wrote:

> In D54630#1301283 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D54630#1301283>, @arphaman wrote:
>
> > I don't think we want to move the logic to add a libc++ path to the driver. 
> > `-cc1` with `-resource-dir` and `-stdlib=libc++` should still work as 
> > before. In this case the previous patch is better, except it should not set 
> > `InstalledDir` except when needed (e.g. for tooling when working with a CDB 
> > that has an absolute path to the compiler), so when `InstalledDir` is empty 
> > it should fallback to the current logic in `InitHeaderSearch.cpp`. That 
> > should solve the issues we had.
>
>
> Why not?
>  @ldionne made a good point: there is value in keeping the frontend separate 
> from the logic to detect system libraries and other toolchain-specific things.
>
> This is how other toolchains do it (Linux, etc.). It's more straightforward 
> to the user (one can inspect the -cc1 args produced by the driver), this is 
> where the logic to detect linker dependencies is. It seems that was also the 
> plan of some developers looking in that area: the test I've edited suggests 
> this should be moved to the driver (`darwin-stdlib.cpp`, it says: If and 
> **when** we change to finding them in the driver ...), there's a bug 
> corresponding bug to do this: http://llvm.org/PR30548. 
>  I might not have full information, but my understanding is that 
> `-resource-dir` has a pretty well-defined semantics: it should be used to 
> find the `compiler resources`, i.e. only the buit-in headers and not the C++ 
> standard library.
>
> What are the reasons we need to keep the old behavior?


Sounds convincing.
@dexonsmith What do you think?

@ilya-biryukov I'm going to do some internal testing to see if we uncover any 
issues.


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