[llvm-dev] Please dogfood LLD

[Carsten Mattner via llvm-dev]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 7:26 PM, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 15 March 2017 at 16:34, Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> If FreeBSD's libtool is patched to be aware of the base ld=lld,
>> would this still be true?
>
> Yes, for the same reason Joerg points out in another reply in this
> thread - some software packages are going to include in their
> configure scripts parts of whatever libtool version existed on the
> machine used by a developer to produce a release.

Thanks, never used libtool explicitly myself and wasn't aware
it's also one of those tools that has you bundle a generated
script with your build tooling. I've had my share of pain
when running autoconf configure.in so I guess it's the same
kind of problems that plague libtoolize.