Hi Andrew,
> The driver currently will remove "/lib" and "/usr/lib" from the library
> path that gets passed to the linker because it considers them as paths that
> the linker will already known to search. But this is not true for newer
> linkers, mold and lld for an example don't have a default search path.
> This patch removes the special casing to fix FreeBSD building where lld is
> used by default and also fix riscv-linux-gnu when used in combination with
> mold.
> I have tested it on x86_64-linux-gnu and it works there but since the code
> in the driver has been around since 1992, I request some folks to test it
> on AIX, Mac OS (Darwin) and solaris where the ld is not GNU bfd ld as I
> don't have access to those targets currently.
actually, you do: all of those are availble inside the cfarm.
I've also tested the patch on i386-pc-solaris2.11 and
sparc-sun-solaris2.11 with the native ld: no regressions in either case.
>From what I can see, the handling of -Y P,* in gcc/config/sol2.h
(LINK_ARCH{32,64}_SPEC_BASE) can go as well. I'll test this, but this
is almost certainly GCC 15 material.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
