[lld] r217112 - If lld binary is named 'ld' on darwin, use darwin driver mode

[Nick Kledzik]

On Sep 5, 2014, at 2:22 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg at britannica.bec.de> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 11:17:46AM -0700, Nick Kledzik wrote:
>> 
>> On Sep 4, 2014, at 2:00 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg at britannica.bec.de> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 12:03:37AM -0000, Nick Kledzik wrote:
>>>> Author: kledzik
>>>> Date: Wed Sep  3 19:03:36 2014
>>>> New Revision: 217112
>>>> 
>>>> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=217112&view=rev
>>>> Log:
>>>> If lld binary is named 'ld' on darwin, use darwin driver mode
>>> 
>>> I wonder if we can defer this decision until the target triple is
>>> actually parsed?
>> 
>> What target triple are you thinking of?  For the darwin linker, there is no target triple on the command line.
> 
> The parsing here is for something like "target-ld", so behavior of ld
> can/should depend on <target>.
It does.  The case be handled here is when the linker binary is named just “ld” and there is no -flavor option.  Previously it always acted like the gnu linker.  Now it acts like the darwin linker when running on darwin, otherwise like the gnu linker.

-Nick