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

[Rafael Avila de Espindola via llvm-commits]

Ed Maste via llvm-commits <llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org> writes:

>> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Davide Italiano <davide at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> Picking a random Solaris commit.
>>> I'd like to bring this up sooner rather than later.
>>> It seems there's been a decent amount of interest/support to make
>>> clang working on Solaris.
>>> 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).
>
> Even though it very much appears that Oracle Solaris has no future
> based on recent events, Illumos and derivatives are still alive and
> there's some Clang interest in those communities, so I think it's
> premature to start actively removing support. It's definitely worth
> discussing though and hearing from those who do have an interest.

I am all for supporting Illumos if someone is OK with owning it.

Is there a summary of what the differences between Illumos and Solaris
are? For example, do they use the sun linker that this change adds
support too?

Cheers,
Rafael