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5224 :: How to change C compiler globally on Linux?

• asmar (orginal) [2019-09-25T17:12:35+02:00] view original

  Hi, I have come to explore Nim language after years when it reached 1.0.

  How do I change C compiler globally?

  I have tried creating /etc/nim/nim.cfg file as per documentation (https://nim-lang.github.io/Nim/nimc.html#compiler-usage-configuration-files) and ensured it is readable for all with content: cc = clang.

  Clang is however only used when I change directly ~/.choosenim/toolchains/nim-1.0.0/config/nim.cfg which I don't want to do because (as far as I understood) this is only for specific version of Nim besides I don't really want to interfere with toolchain manager.

  I am sorry as I realise this is noobie question but I couldn't find any satisfactory answer.

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• Araq (orginal) [2019-09-25T20:06:22+02:00] view original

  No, it's a good question. Maybe /etc/nim/nim.cfg is only used when nim is /usr/bin, I don't remember.

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• kaushalmodi (orginal) [2019-09-25T21:04:49+02:00] view original

  I'm on RHEL 6.8. I put a config.nims in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nim/ and that works fine.

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• Libman (orginal) [2019-09-26T00:32:05+02:00] view original

  Having a shared system-wide config file is useful in many Grandpa Unix scenarios, like shared shell account boxes. This is major retro nerd chic! 🐡 🧐

  nim would be in /usr/local/bin on most BSDs, or /usr/pkg/bin or /opt/pkg on PkgSrc systems, etc.

  getSystemConfigPath could dig harder...

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• asmar (orginal) [2019-09-26T17:12:07+02:00] view original

  Ok, so I used ~/.config/nim/nim.cfg which is satisfactory for me. However, I have now been able to find some issues discussing /etc/nim/nim.cfg (and even tried /etc/nim.cfg without success) and it seems weird to me that they are closed even though it still doesn't work.

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• kaushalmodi (orginal) [2019-09-26T18:07:17+02:00] view original

  seems weird to me that they are closed even though it still doesn't work.

  I think you should open new issues with recipes to reproduce the problem.

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• asmar (orginal) [2019-09-28T10:41:02+02:00] view original

  I opened this issue https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/12292

  I hope I provided enough relevant informations.

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