Bazel uses /usr/bin/clang instead of /usr/bin/clang++ to link C++ code on FreeBSD?

[yesudeep]

Description of the problem / feature request:

Apparently, Bazel uses /usr/bin/clang instead of /usr/bin/clang++ to compile/link C++ code. I'm not sure whether this is intentional, but the behavior for clang is different from clang++ resulting in subtle problems at compile/link time:

❯ /usr/bin/clang -o bazel-out/freebsd-fastbuild/bin/time_zone_lookup_test '-Wl,-rpath,$ORIGIN/_solib_freebsd/' -Lbazel-out/freebsd-fastbuild/bin/_solib_freebsd bazel-out/freebsd-fastbuild/bin/_objs/time_zone_lookup_test/time_zone_lookup_test.pic.o -llibtime_Uzone -llibcivil_Utime -lexternal_Scom_Ugoogle_Ugoogletest_Slibgtest_Umain -lexternal_Scom_Ugoogle_Ugoogletest_Slibgtest -pthread -Wl,-S -lstdc++ -Wl,-z,relro,-z,now -no-canonical-prefixes
ld: error: bazel-out/freebsd-fastbuild/bin/_solib_freebsd/liblibtime_Uzone.so: undefined reference to ceilf
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

❯ /usr/bin/clang++ -o bazel-out/freebsd-fastbuild/bin/time_zone_lookup_test '-Wl,-rpath,$ORIGIN/_solib_freebsd/' -Lbazel-out/freebsd-fastbuild/bin/_solib_freebsd bazel-out/freebsd-fastbuild/bin/_objs/time_zone_lookup_test/time_zone_lookup_test.pic.o -llibtime_Uzone -llibcivil_Utime -lexternal_Scom_Ugoogle_Ugoogletest_Slibgtest_Umain -lexternal_Scom_Ugoogle_Ugoogletest_Slibgtest -pthread -Wl,-S -lstdc++ -Wl,-z,relro,-z,now -no-canonical-prefixes

The first command is what Bazel uses for purely C++ code on my FreeBSD system and the latter is what it should use. The only difference is clang++ instead of clang.

Feature requests: what underlying problem are you trying to solve with this feature?

1. Perhaps use clang++/g++ for C++ code and clang/gcc for C code.
2. The two languages should use different rules as well: cc_library for C++ and c_library for C code.

Bugs: what's the simplest, easiest way to reproduce this bug? Please provide a minimal example if possible.

❯ git clone https://github.com/google/cctz
...
❯ bazel test ...
...
ERROR: /usr/home/yesudeep/code/yesudeep/cctz/BUILD:165:10: Linking of rule '//:example3' failed (Exit 1) clang failed: error executing command /usr/bin/clang -o bazel-out/freebsd-fastbuild/bin/example3 bazel-out/freebsd-fastbuild/bin/_objs/example3/example3.pic.o bazel-out/freebsd-fastbuild/bin/libtime_zone.a ... (remaining 5 argument(s) skipped)

Use --sandbox_debug to see verbose messages from the sandbox
ld: error: undefined symbol: ceilf
>>> referenced by time_zone_impl.cc
>>>               time_zone_impl.pic.o:(ceil(float)) in archive bazel-out/freebsd-fastbuild/bin/libtime_zone.a
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
INFO: Elapsed time: 0.357s, Critical Path: 0.03s
INFO: 0 processes.
FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully
//:cctz_benchmark                                                     NO STATUS
//:civil_time_test                                                    NO STATUS
//:time_zone_format_test                                              NO STATUS
//:time_zone_lookup_test                                              NO STATUS

FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully

What operating system are you running Bazel on?

• FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE

❯ uname -a
FreeBSD monalisa 12.1-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p2 GENERIC  amd64

❯ /usr/bin/clang++ --version
FreeBSD clang version 8.0.1 (tags/RELEASE_801/final 366581) (based on LLVM 8.0.1)
Target: x86_64-unknown-freebsd12.1
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /usr/bin

and

• GhostBSD 20.08.20 (FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE based)

❯ uname -a
FreeBSD mevin 12.1-STABLE FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE GENERIC  amd64

❯ /usr/bin/clang++ --version
FreeBSD clang version 10.0.0 ([email protected]:llvm/llvm-project.git llvmorg-10.0.0-0-gd32170dbd5b)
Target: x86_64-unknown-freebsd12.1
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /usr/bin

What's the output of bazel info release?

• FreeBSD

❯ bazel --version
bazel 3.3.0

and

• GhostBSD (FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE based)

❯ bazel info release
release 3.4.1

What's the output of git remote get-url origin ; git rev-parse master ; git rev-parse HEAD ?

❯ git remote get-url origin; git rev-parse master; git rev-parse HEAD
https://github.com/google/cctz
da5a52d91bf212a1f8c17f366ed8b947e2663d2a
da5a52d91bf212a1f8c17f366ed8b947e2663d2a

Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?

Yes, apparently, everybody including me was getting around this by adding -lm linker flags until it was noticed that /usr/bin/clang is being used instead of /usr/bin/clang++ to link C++ code. Here's an example from the Bazel source tree.

Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?

I think the above should include the logs, but please ask if you
need anything else.

[yesudeep]

I think fixing this problem would allow quite a few C++ libraries to compile cleanly on FreeBSD/OpenBSD.

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[dbaileychess]

@bazelbuild/triage Can you look at this for google/flatbuffers? https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/blob/master/src/BUILD.bazel#L23-L28

[siepkes]

@bazelbuild/triage Would you consider re-opening this auto-closed issue? I'm not going to say Bazel is dead in the water on FreeBSD due to this issue but it does break a lot of stuff on FreeBSD...

[yesudeep]

IMHO, the most appropriate fix for this is to have 2 sets of rules: 1. cc_library, cc_binary, etc. (using clang++) and 2. c_binary, c_library, etc. (using clang)

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