Deprecate the use of `LLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS` for compiler-rt

[petrhosek]

We should deprecate the use of LLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS for compiler-rt in favor of LLVM_ENABLE_RUNTIMES which would greatly simplify the build and allow improvements that are currently not possible.

[KyunLFA]

Build failure here when choosing compiler-rt as runtime. Works a-OK as a project build.
It appears the runtime build is somehow building compiler-rt with the system ld (not even my overriden lld but ld.bfd instead), symlinking /usr/bin/ld to the just built lld did not resolve. Will try to find the specific compilation flag that is breaking by 01/Feb 0 AM UTC-3.

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Build error

[1071/1092] Linking CXX static library /home/deck/.cache/paru/clone/llvm-git/src/_build/lib/clang/21/lib/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/libclang_rt.fuzzer_interceptors.a
FAILED: /home/deck/.cache/paru/clone/llvm-git/src/_build/lib/clang/21/lib/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/libclang_rt.fuzzer_interceptors.a 
: && /usr/bin/cmake -E rm -f /home/deck/.cache/paru/clone/llvm-git/src/_build/lib/clang/21/lib/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/libclang_rt.fuzzer_interceptors.a && /home/deck/.cache/paru/clone/llvm-git/src/_build/bin/llvm-ar Dqc /home/deck/.cache/paru/clone/llvm-git/src/_build/lib/clang/21/lib/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/libclang_rt.fuzzer_interceptors.a  compiler-rt/lib/fuzzer/CMakeFiles/RTfuzzer_interceptors.x86_64.dir/FuzzerInterceptors.cpp.o && /home/deck/.cache/paru/clone/llvm-git/src/_build/bin/llvm-ranlib -D /home/deck/.cache/paru/clone/llvm-git/src/_build/lib/clang/21/lib/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/libclang_rt.fuzzer_interceptors.a && cd /home/deck/.cache/paru/clone/llvm-git/src/_build/runtimes/runtimes-bins/compiler-rt/lib/fuzzer/cxx_x86_64_merge.dir && /home/deck/.cache/paru/clone/llvm-git/src/_build/bin/clang++ --target=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu -m64 -Wl,--whole-archive /home/deck/.cache/paru/clone/llvm-git/src/_build/lib/clang/21/lib/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/libclang_rt.fuzzer_interceptors.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive /home/deck/.cache/paru/clone/llvm-git/src/_build/runtimes/runtimes-bins/compiler-rt/lib/fuzzer/libcxx_fuzzer_x86_64/lib/libc++.a -r -o fuzzer_interceptors.o && /home/deck/.cache/paru/clone/llvm-git/src/_build/./bin/llvm-objcopy --localize-hidden fuzzer_interceptors.o && /usr/bin/cmake -E remove /home/deck/.cache/paru/clone/llvm-git/src/_build/lib/clang/21/lib/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/libclang_rt.fuzzer_interceptors.a && /home/deck/.cache/paru/clone/llvm-git/src/_build/bin/llvm-ar qcs /home/deck/.cache/paru/clone/llvm-git/src/_build/lib/clang/21/lib/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/libclang_rt.fuzzer_interceptors.a fuzzer_interceptors.o
/usr/bin/ld: /home/deck/.cache/paru/clone/llvm-git/src/_build/lib/clang/21/lib/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/libclang_rt.fuzzer_interceptors.a: member /home/deck/.cache/paru/clone/llvm-git/src/_build/lib/clang/21/lib/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/libclang_rt.fuzzer_interceptors.a(FuzzerInterceptors.cpp.o) in archive is not an object 

CMake build arguments:

cmake \
        -B _build \
        -S "$srcdir"/llvm-project/llvm  \
        -G Ninja \
        -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
        -D LLVM_BINUTILS_INCDIR=/usr/include \
        -D LLVM_APPEND_VC_REV=ON \
        -D LLVM_VERSION_SUFFIX="" \
        -D LLVM_DEFAULT_TARGET_TRIPLE="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" \
        -D LLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD="X86;AMDGPU;BPF;AArch64;ARM;WebAssembly;SPIRV" \
        -D BOLT_TARGETS_TO_BUILD="X86;AArch64" \
        -D LLVM_HOST_TRIPLE=$CHOST \
        -D LLVM_LINK_LLVM_DYLIB=ON \
        -D LLVM_ENABLE_RTTI=ON \
        -D FFI_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH="$(pkg-config --variable=includedir libffi)" \
        -D LLVM_BUILD_LLVM_DYLIB=ON \
        -D LLVM_ENABLE_FFI=ON \
        -D LLVM_INSTALL_UTILS=ON \
        -D LLVM_BUILD_DOCS=ON \
        -D LLVM_ENABLE_DOXYGEN=OFF \
        -D LLVM_ENABLE_SPHINX=ON \
        -D SPHINX_OUTPUT_HTML:BOOL=OFF \
        -D SPHINX_WARNINGS_AS_ERRORS=OFF \
        -D LLVM_ENABLE_RUNTIMES="libcxx;libcxxabi;libunwind;offload;openmp;compiler-rt" \
        -D LLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS="llvm;polly;lldb;lld;clang-tools-extra;clang;bolt;mlir" \
        -D LLVM_LIT_ARGS="-sv --ignore-fail" \
        -D LLVM_ENABLE_DUMP=ON \
        -Wno-dev

FLAGS:

CFLAGS="-Wno-unused-command-line-argument -flto=full -mtune=znver4 -march=znver4 -O3 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fstack-protector-all --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -fcf-protection -fno-semantic-interposition -mllvm -polly -fwhole-program-vtables -pthread -fopenmp -mllvm -polly-parallel-force -mllvm -polly-omp-backend=LLVM -mllvm -polly-num-threads=24 -mllvm -polly-vectorizer=stripmine -mllvm -polly-position=before-vectorizer -fopenmp-extensions -foptimize-sibling-calls -funroll-loops -fslp-vectorize -fvectorize -mllvm -polly-reschedule -mllvm -polly-tc-opt -mllvm -polly-tiling -mllvm -polly-2nd-level-tiling -mllvm -polly-matmul-opt -mllvm -polly-optimized-scops -mllvm -polly-pattern-matching-based-opts -mllvm -polly-postopts -mllvm -polly-register-tiling -ffp-contract=fast -fbinutils-version=2.43 -fveclib=AMDLIBM -fstrict-enums -fstrict-aliasing -fopenmp -fopenmp-extensions"
CXXFLAGS="-Wno-unused-command-line-argument -flto=full -mtune=znver4 -march=znver4 -O3 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fstack-protector-all --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -fcf-protection -fno-semantic-interposition -mllvm -polly -fwhole-program-vtables -pthread -fopenmp -mllvm -polly-parallel-force -mllvm -polly-omp-backend=LLVM -mllvm -polly-num-threads=24 -mllvm -polly-vectorizer=stripmine -mllvm -polly-position=before-vectorizer -fopenmp-extensions -foptimize-sibling-calls -funroll-loops -fslp-vectorize -fvectorize -mllvm -polly-reschedule -mllvm -polly-tc-opt -mllvm -polly-tiling -mllvm -polly-2nd-level-tiling -mllvm -polly-matmul-opt -mllvm -polly-optimized-scops -mllvm -polly-pattern-matching-based-opts -mllvm -polly-postopts -mllvm -polly-register-tiling -ffp-contract=fast -fbinutils-version=2.43 -fveclib=AMDLIBM -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fstrict-enums -fstrict-aliasing -fopenmp -fopenmp-extensions"
LDFLAGS="-v -fuse-ld=lld -Wl,-O3,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now,--threads=24,-z,pack-relative-relocs,--lto-O3,--lto-CGO3,-lpthread,--icf=safe,--ignore-data-address-equality,-z,stack-size=8192,-lomp,-lpthread"

[rorth]

When doing a runtimes build, the compiler-rt builtins tests still aren't run, unlike in a projects build. This was reported as part of Issue #72511 almost a year and a half ago, and is still unfixed. IMO this is a showstopper for switching to runtimes builds (and it shame it's been ignored for so long).

[KyunLFA]

Build failure here when choosing compiler-rt as runtime. Works a-OK as a project build. It appears the runtime build is somehow building compiler-rt with the system ld (not even my overriden lld but ld.bfd instead), symlinking /usr/bin/ld to the just built lld did not resolve. Will try to find the specific compilation flag that is breaking by 01/Feb 0 AM UTC-3.
inxi --basic

Build error

CMake build arguments:

FLAGS:

Found my issue. It was LTO... Full LTO enforced on the C[XX]FLAGS level on the LLVM build with compiler-rt as runtime hard fails, unless -ffat-lto-objects is passed.

[ilovepi]

@KyunLFA I doubt you just want to pass -ffat-lto-objects to the build. Passing -ffat-lto-objects to clang will make it emit FatLTO objects (ELF objects with an .llvm.lto section containing bitcode). If you want to use the bitcode section for LTO linking, LLD needs to be passed --fat-lto-objects to select those sections from FatLTO object files. Clang will do this automatically when used as a linker, but I see you're setting CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, so I'm guessing those aren't doing what you expect, and you're just getting normal non-LTO linking. (see for more info https://llvm.org/docs/FatLTO.html).

Do note that there is some support int he CMake for building the toolchain and runtimes with LTO and FatLTO.
In your CMake invocation or cache file, you can set LLVM_ENABLE_LTO=On LLVM_ENABLE_FATLTO=On If you want to enable LTO for runtimes, RUNTIMES_LLVM_EABLE_LTO=On RUNTIMES_LLVM_ENABLE_FATLTO=On. Note, that if you use the per target runtimes build, you'll need to set the RUNTIMES_<target>_LLVM_* prefix appropriately.