Is there a way to configure an Anchor project to use the `--arch sbf` flag without having to specify it with each command?

Question

After creating a new Anchor project, when you do anchor build you will see this warning:

Warning: cargo-build-bpf is deprecated. Please, use cargo-build-sbf

After looking into the cargo build options, it turns out you can toggle pass in the --arch sbf option that switches to cargo-build-sbf.

This all seems to work well, but the downside is that I have to specify it on each command (anchor build --arch sbf, anchor test --arch sbf).

I was wondering if there's a way to configure an Anchor project to use the sbf arch by default.

Answer 1

I took a look at the code, and ProgramArch isn't included anywhere in the config file at https://github.com/coral-xyz/anchor/blob/29b8a7280075426a698aeaae3f117f0a609cca15/cli/src/config.rs#L342, so this is not possible.

You could put in a PR to add this to the config somewhere though, maybe at the top-level?