<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8">
    <tr>
        <th>Issue</th>
        <td>
            <a href=https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/73244>73244</a>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <th>Summary</th>
        <td>
            [17 Regression] clang++ fails to link, when installed in a non-standard location
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Labels</th>
      <td>
            clang
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Assignees</th>
      <td>
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Reporter</th>
      <td>
          doko42
      </td>
    </tr>
</table>

<pre>
    seen with 17.0.5, works with 16.0.8. clang++ linkage fails, when installed in a non-standard location.

clang++-17 -std=c++14 -stdlib=libc++ foo.cpp -lc++experimental -o o
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc++experimental: No such file or directory

when calling with -v, and looking at the invocation of the linker, the link command varies:

@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 -L/lib/../lib64
 -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
 -L/usr/lib/../lib64
--L/usr/lib/llvm-16/bin/../lib
 -L/lib
 -L/usr/lib
 foo.o

the installation prefix is /usr/lib/llvm-1[67]. LLVM 17 doesn't emit the -L<prefix>/bin/../lib flag anymore. This works with 16 and older versions.

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