OS X 10.10 using '-march=native' works in clang but breaks in gcc

[certik]

More background e.g. in Homebrew/legacy-homebrew#14204.
The way it breaks in (our compiled) gcc is as follows:

[csympy] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/csympy.dir/symbol.cpp.o
[csympy] /var/tmp//ccc4Ii22.s:829:no such instruction: `vzeroupper'
[csympy] /var/tmp//ccc4Ii22.s:847:no such instruction: `vzeroupper'
[csympy] /var/tmp//ccc4Ii22.s:855:no such instruction: `vzeroupper'
...

The linker (which is Apple linker) complains that it doesn't understand the AVX instructions, emitted (correctly) by gcc's -march=native, since my computer supports AVX. A quick workaround is to do

diff --git a/pkgs/csympy.yaml b/pkgs/csympy.yaml
index 5caa557..32bf39d 100644
--- a/pkgs/csympy.yaml
+++ b/pkgs/csympy.yaml
@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ defaults:
   relocatable: false

 build_stages:
+- name: cxx_flags
+  before: configure
+  handler: bash
+  bash: |
+    export CXXFLAGS="-mno-avx"
+
 - name: configure
   extra: ['-D WITH_PYTHON:BOOL=ON',
           '-D PYTHON_INSTALL_PATH:PATH=$ARTIFACT/{{python_site_packages_rel}}']

But this is not a solution, because you want to be able to use AVX instructions if your processor supports it, and gcc generates them, i.e. you must be able to use -march=native.

The fix is to either make gcc generate AVX instructions so that the Apple's linker can understand, or we need to build our own linker.

[certik]

I think I found an actual solution to this problem here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/19342603

diff --git a/pkgs/csympy.yaml b/pkgs/csympy.yaml
index 5caa557..d12c127 100644
--- a/pkgs/csympy.yaml
+++ b/pkgs/csympy.yaml
@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ defaults:
   relocatable: false

 build_stages:
+- name: cxx_flags
+  before: configure
+  handler: bash
+  bash: |
+    export CXXFLAGS="-Wa,-q"
+
 - name: configure
   extra: ['-D WITH_PYTHON:BOOL=ON',
           '-D PYTHON_INSTALL_PATH:PATH=$ARTIFACT/{{python_site_packages_rel}}']

This solution forces our gcc to use the clang's assembler, so we still use -march=native and AVX instructions, just a different linker. And all is good.

This CXXFLAGS option should be integrated into all packages on OS X I guess.