svn commit: r316029 - head/contrib/llvm/tools/lld/ELF

[Ed Maste]

On 27 March 2017 at 12:01, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Author: emaste
> Date: Mon Mar 27 16:01:16 2017
> New Revision: 316029
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/316029
>
> Log:
>   lld: hack version and help output for compatibility with libtool

For the record, I think this is a terrible hack and I wish we didn't
need it. However, it was committed upstream and should be the most
expedient way to get libtool-using third party software to link with
lld.

As Sean Silva wrote in https://reviews.llvm.org/D31199:
    Btw, I think this is one of the clearest proofs that LLD has
crossed a big milestone and is now entering "production quality". You
don't see this kind of hack in a non-production-quality program.

I still hope libtool will gain native support for lld, and perhaps
many years from now this can be removed.