The current setup uses different ways for different platforms, with
different workarounds, even using extra configuration items for Windows.
Now that there can't be a difference between the host per the build
system and the host per rust, we can get rid of those configuration
items, and use a more common infrastructure.
We cannot, however, avoid using wrapper scripts, because per-target rust
link-arg flags don't work up great.
The downside is that multiplies the number of wrappers, as we now have
to have a different one for host and target, and then we have .bat files
and shell scripts for, respectively, Windows hosts, and other hosts.
Depends on D24321
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D24322
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extra : moz-landing-system : lando
The current setup uses different ways for different platforms, with
different workarounds, even using extra configuration items for Windows.
Now that there can't be a difference between the host per the build
system and the host per rust, we can get rid of those configuration
items, and use a more common infrastructure.
We cannot, however, avoid using wrapper scripts, because per-target rust
link-arg flags don't work up great.
The downside is that multiplies the number of wrappers, as we now have
to have a different one for host and target, and then we have .bat files
and shell scripts for, respectively, Windows hosts, and other hosts.
Depends on D24321
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D24322
--HG--
extra : moz-landing-system : lando
For linking static libraries, rustc will use whatever `cc` it finds (or
the equivalent on Windows). For our purposes, however, `cc` is not what
we use to link and we may have additional options we would like to pass
to the linker.
To do this, we need to tell Cargo about our alternate linker (currently
only used for target compilations, on the theory that the host compiler
rustc finds is probably good enough) and we also need to pass our linker
options into the process. We do this with environment variables, which
is not a great solution, but works surprisingly well.
This alternate linker is disabled for ASan builds due to peculiar
crashes when running Rust build scripts and for Windows, because we
don't do any interesting cross-compiling there.
Mike Hommey
Noemi Erli
Nathan Froyd