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-Z linker-flavor
authorJorge Aparicio <japaricious@gmail.com>
Tue, 21 Feb 2017 19:47:15 +0000 (14:47 -0500)
committerJorge Aparicio <japaricious@gmail.com>
Fri, 7 Apr 2017 15:52:42 +0000 (10:52 -0500)
commit9d11b089ad136432dff6c49c6eb3c48c7f6e5273
tree089d832161196cfcaa2cc681dcad636e37fb8407
parentc438c1fb39337b7712afc58df4f1f9c5112e5cc1
-Z linker-flavor

This patch adds a `-Z linker-flavor` flag to rustc which can be used to invoke
the linker using a different interface.

For example, by default rustc assumes that all the Linux targets will be linked
using GCC. This makes it impossible to use LLD as a linker using just `-C
linker=ld.lld` because that will invoke LLD with invalid command line
arguments. (e.g. rustc will pass -Wl,--gc-sections to LLD but LLD doesn't
understand that; --gc-sections would be the right argument)

With this patch one can pass `-Z linker-flavor=ld` to rustc to invoke the linker
using a LD-like interface. This way, `rustc -C linker=ld.lld -Z
linker-flavor=ld` will invoke LLD with the right arguments.

`-Z linker-flavor` accepts 4 different arguments: `em` (emcc), `ld`,
`gcc`, `msvc` (link.exe). `em`, `gnu` and `msvc` cover all the existing linker
interfaces. `ld` is a new flavor for interfacing GNU's ld and LLD.

This patch also changes target specifications. `linker-flavor` is now a
mandatory field that specifies the *default* linker flavor that the target will
use. This change also makes the linker interface *explicit*; before, it used to
be derived from other fields like linker-is-gnu, is-like-msvc,
is-like-emscripten, etc.

Another change to target specifications is that the fields `pre-link-args`,
`post-link-args` and `late-link-args` now expect a map from flavor to linker
arguments.

``` diff
-    "pre-link-args": ["-Wl,--as-needed", "-Wl,-z,-noexecstack"],
+    "pre-link-args": {
+        "gcc": ["-Wl,--as-needed", "-Wl,-z,-noexecstack"],
+        "ld": ["--as-needed", "-z,-noexecstack"],
+    },
```

[breaking-change]  for users of custom targets specifications
89 files changed:
src/librustc/session/config.rs
src/librustc/session/mod.rs
src/librustc_back/lib.rs
src/librustc_back/target/aarch64_apple_ios.rs
src/librustc_back/target/aarch64_linux_android.rs
src/librustc_back/target/aarch64_unknown_freebsd.rs
src/librustc_back/target/aarch64_unknown_fuchsia.rs
src/librustc_back/target/aarch64_unknown_linux_gnu.rs
src/librustc_back/target/android_base.rs
src/librustc_back/target/apple_base.rs
src/librustc_back/target/apple_ios_base.rs
src/librustc_back/target/arm_linux_androideabi.rs
src/librustc_back/target/arm_unknown_linux_gnueabi.rs
src/librustc_back/target/arm_unknown_linux_gnueabihf.rs
src/librustc_back/target/arm_unknown_linux_musleabi.rs
src/librustc_back/target/arm_unknown_linux_musleabihf.rs
src/librustc_back/target/armv5te_unknown_linux_gnueabi.rs
src/librustc_back/target/armv7_apple_ios.rs
src/librustc_back/target/armv7_linux_androideabi.rs
src/librustc_back/target/armv7_unknown_linux_gnueabihf.rs
src/librustc_back/target/armv7_unknown_linux_musleabihf.rs
src/librustc_back/target/armv7s_apple_ios.rs
src/librustc_back/target/asmjs_unknown_emscripten.rs
src/librustc_back/target/dragonfly_base.rs
src/librustc_back/target/freebsd_base.rs
src/librustc_back/target/fuchsia_base.rs
src/librustc_back/target/i386_apple_ios.rs
src/librustc_back/target/i686_apple_darwin.rs
src/librustc_back/target/i686_linux_android.rs
src/librustc_back/target/i686_pc_windows_gnu.rs
src/librustc_back/target/i686_pc_windows_msvc.rs
src/librustc_back/target/i686_unknown_dragonfly.rs
src/librustc_back/target/i686_unknown_freebsd.rs
src/librustc_back/target/i686_unknown_haiku.rs
src/librustc_back/target/i686_unknown_linux_gnu.rs
src/librustc_back/target/i686_unknown_linux_musl.rs
src/librustc_back/target/i686_unknown_netbsd.rs
src/librustc_back/target/i686_unknown_openbsd.rs
src/librustc_back/target/le32_unknown_nacl.rs
src/librustc_back/target/linux_base.rs
src/librustc_back/target/linux_musl_base.rs
src/librustc_back/target/mips64_unknown_linux_gnuabi64.rs
src/librustc_back/target/mips64el_unknown_linux_gnuabi64.rs
src/librustc_back/target/mips_unknown_linux_gnu.rs
src/librustc_back/target/mips_unknown_linux_musl.rs
src/librustc_back/target/mips_unknown_linux_uclibc.rs
src/librustc_back/target/mipsel_unknown_linux_gnu.rs
src/librustc_back/target/mipsel_unknown_linux_musl.rs
src/librustc_back/target/mipsel_unknown_linux_uclibc.rs
src/librustc_back/target/mod.rs
src/librustc_back/target/netbsd_base.rs
src/librustc_back/target/openbsd_base.rs
src/librustc_back/target/powerpc64_unknown_linux_gnu.rs
src/librustc_back/target/powerpc64le_unknown_linux_gnu.rs
src/librustc_back/target/powerpc_unknown_linux_gnu.rs
src/librustc_back/target/redox_base.rs
src/librustc_back/target/s390x_unknown_linux_gnu.rs
src/librustc_back/target/sparc64_unknown_linux_gnu.rs
src/librustc_back/target/sparc64_unknown_netbsd.rs
src/librustc_back/target/sparcv9_sun_solaris.rs
src/librustc_back/target/thumbv6m_none_eabi.rs
src/librustc_back/target/thumbv7em_none_eabi.rs
src/librustc_back/target/thumbv7em_none_eabihf.rs
src/librustc_back/target/thumbv7m_none_eabi.rs
src/librustc_back/target/wasm32_unknown_emscripten.rs
src/librustc_back/target/windows_base.rs
src/librustc_back/target/windows_msvc_base.rs
src/librustc_back/target/x86_64_apple_darwin.rs
src/librustc_back/target/x86_64_apple_ios.rs
src/librustc_back/target/x86_64_pc_windows_gnu.rs
src/librustc_back/target/x86_64_pc_windows_msvc.rs
src/librustc_back/target/x86_64_rumprun_netbsd.rs
src/librustc_back/target/x86_64_sun_solaris.rs
src/librustc_back/target/x86_64_unknown_bitrig.rs
src/librustc_back/target/x86_64_unknown_dragonfly.rs
src/librustc_back/target/x86_64_unknown_freebsd.rs
src/librustc_back/target/x86_64_unknown_fuchsia.rs
src/librustc_back/target/x86_64_unknown_haiku.rs
src/librustc_back/target/x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu.rs
src/librustc_back/target/x86_64_unknown_linux_musl.rs
src/librustc_back/target/x86_64_unknown_netbsd.rs
src/librustc_back/target/x86_64_unknown_openbsd.rs
src/librustc_back/target/x86_64_unknown_redox.rs
src/librustc_llvm/lib.rs
src/librustc_trans/back/link.rs
src/librustc_trans/back/linker.rs
src/test/run-make/target-specs/my-awesome-platform.json
src/test/run-make/target-specs/my-incomplete-platform.json
src/test/run-make/target-specs/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.json