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

[Rainer Orth via llvm-commits]

Davide Italiano via llvm-commits <llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org> writes:

> 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).

While this is true for Oracle Solaris, there are several OpenSolaris
derivatives that are very much alive and just as interested as Oracle
has been for a while.  They also do use Solaris ld instead of GNU ld, so
the needs are almost exactly the same.

	Rainer (also wearing the Solaris GCC maintainer hat ;-)

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