[PATCH] D108006: [lld][ELF] Add --no-search-static-libs-for-shlib-undefined flag

Mon Aug 23 19:15:57 PDT 2021

MaskRay added a comment.

To clarify, gold is not the odd one. GNU ld, gold, and ld.lld have the similar behavior. The original description Revert-two-changes-that-break-Android-builds.v6.patch probably made an error connecting the previous LLD behavior with the gold behavior.

Say, b.so depends on a.so. The linker command line is `ld main.o a.a b.so` and a.a defines an undef in b.so.

a.a may be dropped by GNU ld/gold. ld.lld may extract some a.a members but this would be flagged by `--warn-backrefs`.

>From binutils, generic-abi, and your responses, I feel that there is not sufficient argument for having `--no-search-static-libs-for-shlib-undefined`.
It won't be used by others and the option could just cause confusion.

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