[LLD] Cyclic dependency between ReaderWriter and YAML backend

[Shankar Easwaran]

On 9/2/2013 11:09 PM, Chandler Carruth wrote:
> I really don't follow what you're saying. Not all linkers are capable 
> of resolving cyclic references using start-group/end-group even for 
> static links. Thus, I'm suggesting we shouldn't include such patterns 
> in any art of our design. I don't know if it does today or not, I'm 
> merely responding to your comment that cyclic dependencies could be 
> handled with start-group/end-group to clarify that this isn't a viable 
> solution on all platforms where LLVM projects are being built. 
Sorry for being terse.

I totally agree to your point that, we shouldnot be using 
--start-group/--end-group.

What I was trying to mention here is :-

a) Currently lld creates a shared library for each of the individual 
components when BUILD_SHARED_LIBS is turned on.
The list of libraries are liblldYAML, liblldELF and so on.

Inorder for utilities to link with lld libraries, doesnt llvm-config 
need to contain the list of lld libraries too, that the tools need 
inorder to link with ?

Thanks

Shankar Easwaran

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