On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 9:48 PM Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Currently, rustc defaults to invoking `cc`, even if `HOSTCC` is defined, > resulting in build failures in hermetic environments where `cc` does not > exist. This includes both hostprogs and proc-macros. > > Since we are setting the linker to `HOSTCC`, we set the linker flavor to > `gcc` explicitly. The linker-flavor selects both which linker to search > for if the linker is unset, and which kind of linker flags to pass. > Without this flag, `rustc` would attempt to determine which flags to > pass based on the name of the binary passed as `HOSTCC`. `gcc` is the > name of the linker-flavor used by `rustc` for all C compilers, including > both `gcc` and `clang`. > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@xxxxxxxxxx>
