[PATCH] D85278: [lld] Support building shared libLLD.so

Fri Dec 4 15:37:22 PST 2020

mgorny added a comment.

In D85278#2434383 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D85278#2434383>, @thakis wrote:

> From what I understand, linking lld as a shared library is an explicit non-goal of lld. It trusts inputs and crashes on bad inputs, since it's designed to be run as a separate process.
>
> Can you say more about what you want this for? It seems like something we don't want to do.

It's for zig <https://ziglang.org/>. It apparently tries to link to LLD's static libraries, and we really don't want to install static libraries on Gentoo.

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