The desired outcome of this change is that we'll set
-Wl,--version-script based on linker kind and not on the output of
$LINKER -v.
This is a cheap way to address a simple problem that has a complicated
ideal solution. The underlying issue is that in some situations, when
targeting Android, a macOS system ld is interrogated to determine if
a cross-compiling linker "is GNU ld" and a particular linker feature
is set in that situation. The macOS system ld doesn't pass the "is
GNU ld" test, and the linker feature isn't set; that causes link
failures, even though the actual linker has nothing to do with the
system ld.
The ideal solution is to test for linker capabilities dynamically. We
do a lot of that in old-configure.in, and we don't do any of that in
toolchain.configure. Rather than start testing in
toolchain.configure, we hard-code: a cheap solution to the immediate
problem.
MinGW suffers somewhat from the opposite problem: the linker "is GNU
ld" (compatible), but the linker checks don't happen at all. We hard-code
for MinGW based on the C compiler instead.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D8471
--HG--
extra : moz-landing-system : lando
The desired outcome of this change is that we'll set
`-Wl,--version-script` based on linker kind and not on the output of
`$LINKER -v`.
This is a cheap way to address a simple problem that has a complicated
ideal solution. The underlying issue is that in some situations, when
targeting Android, a macOS system `ld` is interrogated to determine if
a cross-compiling linker "is GNU ld" and a particular linker feature
is set in that situation. The macOS system `ld` doesn't pass the "is
GNU ld" test, and the linker feature isn't set; that causes link
failures, even though the actual linker has nothing to do with the
system `ld`.
The ideal solution is to test for linker capabilities dynamically. We
do a lot of that in old-configure.in, and we don't do any of that in
toolchain.configure. Rather than start testing in
toolchain.configure, we hard-code: a cheap solution to the immediate
problem.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D8471
--HG--
extra : moz-landing-system : lando
Nick Alexander
Cosmin Sabou
Tom Ritter
Jan Beich
Ted Mielczarek