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          <th>Bug ID</th>
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          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW - Support building libc++.a as a linker script: INPUT(libc++.a.1 libc++abi.a)"
   href="https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46321">46321</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Support building libc++.a as a linker script: INPUT(libc++.a.1 libc++abi.a)
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>libc++
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>unspecified
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>PC
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>Linux
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>enhancement
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>All Bugs
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>unassignedclangbugs@nondot.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>i@maskray.me
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          <th>CC</th>
          <td>llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org, mclow.lists@gmail.com
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        <pre>Currently, if libc++.a does not include libc++abi.a (or other C++ ABI like
libcxxrt.a; see LIBCXX_STATICALLY_LINK_ABI_IN_STATIC_LIBRARY), clang++ -static
-stdlib=libc++ is broken (libc++abi.a is not linked).

LIBCXX_STATICALLY_LINK_ABI_IN_STATIC_LIBRARY (adding libc++abi.a members into
libc++.a) is one solution. Another (this feature request) is to

* Rename the real archive to libc++.a.1
* Make libc++.a a linker script: INPUT(libc++.a.1 libc++abi.a)

The scheme is similar to the libc++.so linker script (INPUT(libc++.so.1
-lc++abi)). This solution has the advantage that archive members are not
duplicated.

We can probably extend libcxx/cmake/Modules/DefineLinkerScript.cmake to support
libc++.a . This requires some CMake-fu.

---- Linker support

GNU ld from 2.35 onwards (<a href="https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25806">https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25806</a>
) and LLD>=11 support finding paths relative to the current linker script
<a href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D77779">https://reviews.llvm.org/D77779</a>. Gold has supported this since 2007
(<a href="https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=51dee2fec3afad5e6fc9f78b8c1d8486ebf3a334">https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=51dee2fec3afad5e6fc9f78b8c1d8486ebf3a334</a>
)</pre>
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