[llvm] r307852 - [Solaris] Detect Solaris LD, use detection results to pass Solaris-ld options

[Rainer Orth via llvm-commits]

Joerg Sonnenberger via llvm-commits <llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org>
writes:

> On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 10:21:51AM -0700, Davide Italiano via llvm-commits
> wrote:
>> It's also not a mystery anymore that Solaris has been discontinued
>> and, as it stands, the LLVM/clang support for the OS is not completed.
>> I'm not entirely sure what are the plans, but in case nobody is
>> interested, I'd rather avoid the maintenance burden and remove the
>> support from the tree as it happened in similar circumstances (see
>> e.g. https://reviews.llvm.org/D35707).
>
> Just because Oracle killed Solaris doesn't mean that Illumos stopped
> existing. As such, killing the existing Solaris support makes no sense.

Indeed, however in its current form it's unusable.  I tried when I
wanted to beat my WIP Solaris sanitizer port (developed inside the GCC
tree) into shape for inclusion in LLVM, so something like Fedor's
patches is certainly needed to move forward.  I have no idea how
complete they are, though, and rumours have it that the Studio group has
been layed off completely.  But hopefully they can be the basis to get a
working port again.

	Rainer

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