On Wed, Aug 12, 2026 at 6:00 AM Peter Marko via lists.openembedded.org
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> From: Peter Marko <[email protected]>
>
> This assignment was present in scarthgap meta-clang.
> * commit adding it: [1]
> * commit removing it from native case: [2]
> * it was removed completely when migrating clang to oe-core
>
> After migration from scarthgap to wrynose (or current master), clang
> extra tools like clang-tidy do not work anymore.
>
> Test recipe used for fix validation:
>
> test-recipe.bb:
>   SUMMARY = "clang-tidy demonstration program"
>   SECTION = "examples"
>   HOMEPAGE = "n/a"
>   LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
>   LIC_FILES_CHKSUM =
> "file://${COREBASE}/meta/files/common-licenses/GPL-2.0-only;md5=801f80980d171dd6425610833a22dbe6"
>   SRC_URI = "file://CMakeLists.txt file://hello-world.cpp"
>   S = "${UNPACKDIR}"
>   TOOLCHAIN = "clang"
>   inherit cmake
>
> CMakeLists.txt
>   project(hello-world)
>   cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5)
>   find_program(CLANG_TIDY NAMES clang-tidy)
>   set(CMAKE_CXX_CLANG_TIDY "${CLANG_TIDY}" "--checks=*")
>   add_executable(${PROJECT_NAME} hello-world.cpp)
>
> hello-world.cpp
>   #include <iostream>
>   int main() {
>     std::cout << "Hello World!";
>     return 0;
>   }
>
> I have asked AI agent to analyze clang sources for side-effects which
> are mentioned in patch removing this with following result:
>
> When a cmake recipe uses CMAKE_CXX_CLANG_TIDY (or runs clang-tidy in any
> mode that passes the compile command via -- on the command line), CMake
> invokes clang-tidy through its __run_co_compile path. This path
> constructs a FixedCompilationDatabase from the arguments following --.
> Inside FixedCompilationDatabase::loadFromCommandLine() the original
> cross-compiler binary name (e.g. x86_64-poky-linux-clang++) is stripped
> by stripPositionalArgs() and replaced with a dummy argv[0]. As a result
> the target triple encoded in the cross-compiler name is never seen by
> clang-tidy.
>
> JSONCompilationDatabase (used when clang-tidy is run with -p <build_dir>)
> wraps its commands with inferTargetAndDriverMode(), which calls
> addTargetAndModeForProgramName() and would correctly inject
> --target=x86_64-poky-linux. FixedCompilationDatabase has no equivalent
> step, so the native clang-tidy falls back to the build-host default
> triple and cannot locate C++ headers under the target sysroot:
>
>   hello-world.cpp:1:10: error: 'iostream' file not found
>
> The fix is to make the -target flag explicit in the compile commands.
> The cross-compiler already has LLVM_DEFAULT_TARGET_TRIPLE compiled in as
> HOST_SYS, so adding -target ${HOST_SYS} to HOST_CC_ARCH is a no-op for
> the compiler itself. For clang-tidy and other Clang-based tools that
> parse compile commands but do not inherit the binary's baked-in default
> triple the flag is the only reliable channel to communicate the intended
> target.
>
> On a typical GNU/Linux host the GCC runtime is installed under a
> vendor-qualified tuple (e.g. aarch64-linux-gnu/) that clang probes at
> runtime. Providing an explicit -target aarch64-linux overrides that
> probe and prevents clang-native from finding libgcc and crt objects,
> which was the original motivation for removing the assignment.
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/kraj/meta-clang/commit/503aa977b27be0506fb6ac21fbf9e8b049b82247
> [2]
> https://github.com/kraj/meta-clang/commit/6da0abaa33b458a37b97f42e3755245e3220bf27
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Marko <[email protected]>
> ---
>  meta/classes/toolchain/clang.bbclass | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/meta/classes/toolchain/clang.bbclass
> b/meta/classes/toolchain/clang.bbclass
> index 9a3cd0e584..862ecb5e10 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/toolchain/clang.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/toolchain/clang.bbclass
> @@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ LDFLAGS:append:class-nativesdk:x86-64 = "
> -Wl,-dynamic-linker,${base_libdir}/ld-
>  LDFLAGS:append:class-nativesdk:aarch64 = "
> -Wl,-dynamic-linker,${base_libdir}/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1"
>  LDFLAGS:append:class-cross-canadian = "
> -Wl,-dynamic-linker,${base_libdir}/placeholder/to/be/rewritten/by/sdk/installer"
>
> +# helps extra tools like clang-tidy to find arch-specific macros and
> headers in a cross compile environment
> +HOST_CC_ARCH:prepend = "-target ${HOST_SYS} "
>

This will impact all variants of clang compiler invocations e.g.
native/nativesdk etc. I hope it does not impact sstate sharing.

> +
>  # do_populate_sysroot needs STRIP, do_package_qa needs OBJDUMP
>  POPULATESYSROOTDEPS:append:class-target = "
> llvm-native:do_populate_sysroot"
>
>
> 
>
>
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