[PATCH] Silence clang -Wignored-attributes when building with clang
Matt Turner
mattst88@gmail.com
Sun Jul 26 04:27:46 GMT 2026
Building glibc with clang trips -Wignored-attributes on the alias
redirections glibc uses intentionally, e.g. the long_double_symbol
machinery where a public name aliases a weak alias of an internal
symbol.
Detect whether CC is clang (cc-clang) and add -Wno-ignored-attributes
to the warning flags.
---
Makeconfig | 4 ++++
configure | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
configure.ac | 9 +++++++++
3 files changed, 42 insertions(+)
diff --git ./Makeconfig ./Makeconfig
index 8fe7217dd7..4c34e59aed 100644
--- ./Makeconfig
+++ ./Makeconfig
@@ -908,6 +908,10 @@ endif
ifeq ($(enable-werror),yes)
+gccwarn += -Werror
endif
+# Clang warns on the intentional alias redirections (e.g. long_double_symbol).
+ifeq ($(cc-clang),yes)
++gccwarn += -Wno-ignored-attributes
+endif
+gccwarn-c = -Wstrict-prototypes -Wold-style-definition \
$(cc-option-wfree-labels) $(cc-option-wmissing-parameter-name)
diff --git ./configure ./configure
index 90c4b4f858..fbe8e4ac30 100755
--- ./configure
+++ ./configure
@@ -6031,6 +6031,35 @@ config_vars="$config_vars
have-test-clang = $libc_cv_test_clang"
+cat > conftest.c <<EOF
+$conftest_code
+EOF
+{ printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether CC is clang" >&5
+printf %s "checking whether CC is clang... " >&6; }
+if test ${libc_cv_cc_clang+y}
+then :
+ printf %s "(cached) " >&6
+else case e in #(
+ e) if { ac_try='${CC-cc} $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS -c conftest.c -o conftest 1>&5'
+ { { eval echo "\"\$as_me\":${as_lineno-$LINENO}: \"$ac_try\""; } >&5
+ (eval $ac_try) 2>&5
+ ac_status=$?
+ printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
+ test $ac_status = 0; }; }
+ then
+ libc_cv_cc_clang=yes
+ else
+ libc_cv_cc_clang=no
+ fi ;;
+esac
+fi
+{ printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $libc_cv_cc_clang" >&5
+printf "%s\n" "$libc_cv_cc_clang" >&6; }
+rm -f conftest*
+config_vars="$config_vars
+cc-clang = $libc_cv_cc_clang"
+
+
cat > conftest.cc <<EOF
$conftest_code
EOF
diff --git ./configure.ac ./configure.ac
index 2a788c13b7..0d81a6e7a0 100644
--- ./configure.ac
+++ ./configure.ac
@@ -651,6 +651,15 @@ LIBC_TRY_TEST_CC_COMMAND([for clang],
)
LIBC_CONFIG_VAR([have-test-clang], [$libc_cv_test_clang])
+dnl Check whether the library itself is built with clang (CC).
+LIBC_TRY_CC_COMMAND([whether CC is clang],
+ [$conftest_code],
+ [-c],
+ libc_cv_cc_clang,
+ [libc_cv_cc_clang=yes], [libc_cv_cc_clang=no],
+)
+LIBC_CONFIG_VAR([cc-clang], [$libc_cv_cc_clang])
+
dnl Check if clang++ is used to test glibc.
LIBC_TRY_TEST_CXX_COMMAND([for clang++],
[$conftest_code],
--
2.54.0
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