[PATCH] D56215: [lld] [ELF] Include default search paths for NetBSD driver

[Kamil Rytarowski via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

krytarowski added a comment.

In D56215#1346342 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D56215#1346342>, @arichardson wrote:

> In D56215#1346061 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D56215#1346061>, @mgorny wrote:
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> > For the record, another option is to actually fix other software not to call LD directly.
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> Or if you really need to call the linker directly without specifying search paths you could also install a shell script as /usr/bin/ld that passes the appropriate flags to /usr/bin/ld.lld?
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> I don't think ifdefs in the source code are a good idea. Cross linking should just work as expected. But you could look at the OS field in the first input ELF file to choose default config options/a different emulation for NetBSD.
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> The approach we are using in CheriBSD to differentiate between MIPS and CHERI pure-capability to either pass an explicitly `-m elf_btsmip_cheri_fbsd`/ `-m elf_btsmip_fbsd` or infer whether it is CHERI or MIPS based on the e_flags field of the first input file.


This would be the best option to use a shell wrapper for someone who needs it, but we cannot convince Joerg for almost 2 years.


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