[Bug 283155] Link fails with -flto: error loading plugin: Cannot open "/usr/bin/../lib/LLVMgold.so" (port multimedia/kew)

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=283155

--- Comment #15 from Mark Millard <marklmi26-fbsd@yahoo.com> ---
(In reply to Mark Linimon from comment #14)

So far as I know, FreeBSD source code never started
disabling the search for a matching:
*-unknown-freebsd*-ld on the path as the highest
priority linker to use when the system
cc/clang/c++/clang++ looks for one to use, no
-fuse-ld=??? specified. If the appropriate:
*-binutils has been installed (say,
aarch64-binutils), it will find:

/usr/local/bin/*-unknown-freebsd*-ld

and use it. That, in turn will still try to use a:
LLVMgold.so --that it will not find. (A wrong license
type for FreeBSD OS distributions.)

Note:
The devel/llvm* installs do get a matching:

/usr/local/llvm*/lib/LLVMgold.so

so if those clang*/clang++* are in use, it least the
lookup can be coherent enough to find such, unlike
the system commands. (However, the pkg license
information for the devel/llvm* :

Licenses       : PD, BSD3CLAUSE, MIT, LLVM, LLVM2, REGEX

still does not mention the GPLv3 license involved
in having such a file.)

I'll note that these points are a very old problem
set, long predating the Bug 283155 report submittal.

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