thesamesam added a comment.

In D134337#3865905 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D134337#3865905>, @tstellar wrote:

> In D134337#3865753 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D134337#3865753>, @mgorny wrote:
>
>> In D134337#3865541 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D134337#3865541>, @tstellar 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I know I'm a little late here, but having a default config file that's 
>>> always loaded makes triaging issues much harder, because now every time 
>>> someone files a bug, we need to ask for the contents of their config 
>>> directory.
>>
>> I don't see that as much worse than asking them for the values of 
>> `*DEFAULT*` CMake options or whether they have patched their clang because 
>> the driver code makes so many specific assumptions that it didn't work for 
>> them. At least `clang -v` tells us whether they are actually using any 
>> configs.
>
> At least as a distro maintainer, I know the CMake options used for the 
> packages I'm trying to support.
>
> I was also wondering, would it be possible to move some of the targets 
> specific driver code out of the codebase and into config files that are 
> shipped with clang?

We covered the need for this, I feel, quite extensively in the linked 
discussions - especially wrt the Clang 15/16 -Werror changes.

As for bug reports: just ask people to use --no-default-config if something 
looks dodgy?


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