[PATCH] D42702: Fix llvm-config --system-libs output on FreeBSD and NetBSD

[Kamil Rytarowski via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

krytarowski added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D42702#995106, @dim wrote:

> In https://reviews.llvm.org/D42702#994985, @krytarowski wrote:
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> > `-l/usr/lib/libexecinfo.so` this should be replaced with `-lexecinfo`.
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> As I said, this is something detected by CMake, not LLVM's scripts.  We could attempt to submit a fix to CMake, but that will take quite some time to arrive, and some vendor versions (such as Red Hat's or Debian's) will not be fixed for years, if ever.


This means that we need to implement check manually, in worst case hardcode it under the `FreeBSD|NetBSD` OS.

>> Does it work this way with this patch?
> 
> What this patch does, is pass through absolute library paths (even if those might be less desirable) through, unmodified, so programs using `llvm-config --system-libs` will not fail to link.

static linking is still broken


Repository:
  rL LLVM

https://reviews.llvm.org/D42702