Add special consideration for Archlinux #5673
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Hmm, the CI failure seems somewhat random. I'll try closing and reopening the PR to see if that helps. |
Turns out `clang-10` package doesn't ship with individually build clang libs on Archlinux. Instead, it is advised to link against `libclang-cpp.so`. This commit adds a special section to build instructions for Archlinux about circumventing this issue.
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Nit: This is how Arch Linux formats its own title.
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Nice, thanks! I'll make sure to fix that in the wiki :-)
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| The Clang package distributed via official Pacman sources isn't built with static libraries, therefore, it is not possible to statically link | ||
| against individual Clang libs. Instead, one should link against the shared lib `libclang-cpp.so`. | ||
| Thus, when building on Archlinux, you need to pass `ZIG_PREFER_CLANG_CPP_DYLIB` flag set to true like so: |
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| Thus, when building on Archlinux, you need to pass `ZIG_PREFER_CLANG_CPP_DYLIB` flag set to true like so: | |
| Thus, when building on Arch Linux, you need to pass `ZIG_PREFER_CLANG_CPP_DYLIB` flag set to true like so: |
What happened? If there is a flaky test it need to be disabled and issue opened to track it |
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I'd like to request that this information goes into the Wiki rather than the README. You'll be able to edit that without approval. Related articles:
Then the README can explain how it's supposed to work, any exceptions to this can be documented in the wiki, and the README can point to these articles. |
Oh, this was related to #5679 so all is good now :-) |
Makes sense, thanks for the suggestion! I'll move it to the wiki right away then. |
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For reference, and if anyone bumps into this PR when searching for Arch Linux, here's the link to the updated wiki with Arch Linux instructions: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Troubleshooting-Build-Issues |
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clang-10package doesn't ship with individually build clang libs on Archlinux. Instead, it is advised to link againstlibclang-cpp.so. This commit adds a special section to build instructions for Archlinux about circumventing this issue.