Chanfe 397fdf5 weird behavior for cross-compile processes

[badbat75]

Environment and version details

• Operating System+version: Fedora 36
• Compiler+version: Clang 14.0.6
• Shell: Bash
• B2 Version:

b2 -v

B2 Version 4.9. OS=LINUX.
  Copyright 1993-2002 Christopher Seiwald and Perforce Software, Inc.
  Copyright 2001 David Turner.
  Copyright 2001-2004 David Abrahams.
  Copyright 2002-2019 Rene Rivera.
  Copyright 2003-2015 Vladimir Prus.

  DEFAULTS: jobs = 8

b2 --version

B2 4.9-git

b2 embedded in boost libraries 1.80

• B2 Configuration: b2 --debug-configuration

Performing configuration checks

    - default address-model    : 32-bit [1]
    - default architecture     : arm [1]
    - has std::atomic_ref      : no [2]
    - has statx                : yes [2]
    - has init_priority attribute : yes [2]
    - has stat::st_blksize     : yes [2]
    - has stat::st_mtim        : yes [2]
    - has stat::st_mtimensec   : no [2]
    - has stat::st_mtimespec   : no [2]
    - has stat::st_birthtim    : no [2]
    - has stat::st_birthtimensec : no [2]
    - has stat::st_birthtimespec : no [2]
    - has fdopendir(O_NOFOLLOW) : yes [2]
    - has POSIX *at APIs       : yes [2]
    - cxx11_auto_declarations  : yes [2]
    - cxx11_constexpr          : yes [2]
    - cxx11_defaulted_functions : yes [2]
    - cxx11_final              : yes [2]
    - cxx11_hdr_mutex          : yes [2]
    - cxx11_hdr_tuple          : yes [2]
    - cxx11_lambdas            : yes [2]
    - cxx11_noexcept           : yes [2]
    - cxx11_nullptr            : yes [2]
    - cxx11_rvalue_references  : yes [2]
    - cxx11_template_aliases   : yes [2]
    - cxx11_thread_local       : yes [2]
    - cxx11_variadic_templates : yes [2]
    - cxx11_auto_declarations  : yes [3]
    - cxx11_constexpr          : yes [3]
    - cxx11_defaulted_functions : yes [3]
    - cxx11_final              : yes [3]
    - cxx11_hdr_mutex          : yes [3]
    - cxx11_hdr_tuple          : yes [3]
    - cxx11_lambdas            : yes [3]
    - cxx11_noexcept           : yes [3]
    - cxx11_nullptr            : yes [3]
    - cxx11_rvalue_references  : yes [3]
    - cxx11_template_aliases   : yes [3]
    - cxx11_thread_local       : yes [3]
    - cxx11_variadic_templates : yes [3]
    - has_icu builds           : yes [2]
warning: Graph library does not contain MPI-based parallel components.
note: to enable them, add "using mpi ;" to your user-config.jam.
note: to suppress this message, pass "--without-graph_parallel" to bjam.
    - zlib                     : yes
    - bzip2                    : yes
    - lzma                     : yes
    - zstd                     : yes
    - has_lzma_cputhreads builds : yes [2]
    - cxx11_decltype           : yes [2]
    - cxx11_basic_alignas      : yes [2]
    - iconv (libc)             : yes [2]
    - icu                      : yes [2]
    - lockfree boost::atomic_flag : yes [2]
    - native atomic int32 supported : yes [2]
    - native syslog supported  : yes [2]
    - pthread supports robust mutexes : yes [2]
    - gcc visibility           : yes [2]
    - sfinae_expr              : yes [2]
    - cxx11_unified_initialization_syntax : yes [2]
    - cxx11_hdr_initializer_list : yes [2]
    - cxx11_hdr_chrono         : yes [2]
    - cxx11_numeric_limits     : yes [2]
    - cxx11_hdr_array          : yes [2]
    - cxx11_hdr_atomic         : yes [2]
    - cxx11_hdr_type_traits    : yes [2]
    - cxx11_allocator          : yes [2]
    - cxx11_explicit_conversion_operators : yes [2]
    - long double support      : yes [2]
warning: skipping optional Message Passing Interface (MPI) library.
note: to enable MPI support, add "using mpi ;" to user-config.jam.
note: to suppress this message, pass "--without-mpi" to bjam.
note: otherwise, you can safely ignore this message.
    - cxx11_static_assert      : yes [2]
    - std::fstream is moveable and swappable : yes [2]
    - Has Large File Support   : yes [2]
    - Has attribute init_priority : yes [2]
    - libbacktrace builds      : no [2]
    - libbacktrace builds      : no [3]
    - addr2line builds         : no [2]
    - addr2line builds         : no [3]
    - WinDbg builds            : no [2]
    - WinDbg builds            : no [3]
    - WinDbgCached builds      : no [2]
    - WinDbgCached builds      : no [3]
    - BOOST_COMP_GNUC >= 4.3.0 : no [2]
    - BOOST_COMP_GNUC >= 4.3.0 : no [4]
    - cxx11_hdr_thread         : yes [2]
    - cxx11_hdr_regex          : yes [2]

[1] clang-14
[2] clang-linux-14/release/abi-aapcs/lto-on-thin/python-3.9/threadapi-pthread/threading-multi/visibility-hidden
[3] clang-linux-14/release/abi-aapcs/build-no/lto-on-thin/python-3.9/threadapi-pthread/threading-multi/visibility-hidden
[4] clang-linux-14/release/abi-aapcs/link-static/lto-on-thin/python-3.9/threadapi-pthread/threading-multi/visibility-hidden

Brief problem description

Cross compiling for arm-linux-gnueabihf generates weird target option for clang

Steps to reproduce the issue

./b2 -j7 -q architecture=arm address-model=32 binary-format=elf abi=aapcs target-os=linux variant=release optimization=speed lto=on lto-mode=thin threading=multi -d+1 link=shared runtime-link=shared toolset=clang 'cflags=--sysroot=/mnt/distos -march=armv6kz -mtune=arm1176jzf-s -mfpu=vfpv2 -mfloat-abi=hard -marm ' 'cxxflags=-I/mnt/binaries/usr/include -I/mnt/distos/usr/include -I/mnt/distos/usr/include/arm-linux-gnueabihf -I/mnt/distos/usr/include/c++/10 -I/mnt/distos/usr/include/arm-linux-gnueabihf/c++/10 -I/mnt/distos/usr/include/python3.9 -fPIC ' 'linkflags=--target=arm-linux-gnueabihf --sysroot=/mnt/distos -fuse-ld=lld -Wl,--threads=7 -Wl,-rpath-link,/mnt/binaries/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf -L/mnt/binaries/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf -Wl,-rpath-link,/mnt/binaries/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf -L/mnt/binaries/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf -Wl,-rpath-link,/mnt/distos/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf -L/mnt/distos/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf -Wl,-rpath-link,/mnt/distos/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf -L/mnt/distos/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf -Wl,-rpath-link,/mnt/distos/usr/lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/10 -L/mnt/distos/usr/lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/10 ' install

where in /mnt/distos I mounted the target system image and /mnt/binaries some dependencies for boostlib

Actual behavior summary

the generated clang command is:
clang --target=arm-pc-linux ......

In order to force the compilation I had to force the target parameter with "./b2 ... cflags=--target=arm-linux-gnueabihf... ..." in this case the output is
clang --target=arm-pc-linux --target=arm-linux-gnueabihf ......
that is a mess but at least it overrides the weird target clang option.

Expected behavior summary

The correct arch string should be:
clang --target=arm-linux-gnueabihf ......

I haven't tested other arch targets, but I expect the same issue for aarch64-linux-gnu...
In previous versions of b2 target option were not generated so I used to force anyway the target option for clang

[k15tfu]

I have the same issue after upgrading to Boost 1.80.0 on Linux ARM32, the build error looks like:

clang-linux.compile.c++ .bin/clang80.static.arm/boost/bin.v2/libs/chrono/build/clang-linux-8/release/link-static/threading-multi/visibility-hidden/thread_clock.o
clang-8: warning: unknown platform, assuming -mfloat-abi=soft
clang-8: warning: unknown platform, assuming -mfloat-abi=soft
In file included from libs/chrono/src/thread_clock.cpp:18:
In file included from ./boost/chrono/detail/inlined/thread_clock.hpp:14:
In file included from ./boost/chrono/config.hpp:15:
In file included from ./boost/config.hpp:44:
In file included from ./boost/config/detail/select_stdlib_config.hpp:24:
In file included from /opt/clang/bin/../include/c++/v1/version:117:
In file included from /opt/clang/bin/../include/c++/v1/__config:206:
/usr/include/features.h:364:12: fatal error: 'sys/cdefs.h' file not found
#  include <sys/cdefs.h>
           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.

  "clang++" -c -x c++ -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -pthread -O3 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -fvisibility=hidden -Wno-inline --target=arm-pc-linux -Wno-long-long -Wno-variadic-macros -std=c++17 -stdlib=libc++ -fpic -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_All_STATIC_LINK=1 -DNDEBUG -I"."   -o ".bin/clang80.static.arm/boost/bin.v2/libs/chrono/build/clang-linux-8/release/link-static/threading-multi/visibility-hidden/thread_clock.o" "libs/chrono/src/thread_clock.cpp"

...failed clang-linux.compile.c++ .bin/clang80.static.arm/boost/bin.v2/libs/chrono/build/clang-linux-8/release/link-static/threading-multi/visibility-hidden/thread_clock.o...

For now, I tried to revert 397fdf5 as a workaround.

[dotnwat]

Same issue here.