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Diffstat (limited to 'pkgs/stdenv/booter.nix')
| -rw-r--r-- | pkgs/stdenv/booter.nix | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/stdenv/booter.nix b/pkgs/stdenv/booter.nix index 51d617354e86..f1d07e6461a9 100644 --- a/pkgs/stdenv/booter.nix +++ b/pkgs/stdenv/booter.nix @@ -124,7 +124,13 @@ stageFuns: let if buildPackages.stdenv.hasCC then if buildPackages.stdenv.cc.isClang or false - then buildPackages.clang + # buildPackages.clang checks targetPackages.stdenv.cc (i. e. this + # attribute) to get a sense of the its set's default compiler and + # chooses between libc++ and libstdc++ based on that. If we hit this + # code here, we'll cause an infinite recursion. Since a set with + # clang as its default compiler always means libc++, we can infer this + # decision statically. + then buildPackages.llvmPackages.libcxxClang else buildPackages.gcc else # This will blow up if anything uses it, but that's OK. The `if |