treewide: All the linker to be chosen independently

This will begin the process of breaking up the `useLLVM` monolith. That
is good in general, but I hope will be good for NetBSD and Darwin in
particular.

Co-authored-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
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John Ericson
2021-05-01 03:03:19 +00:00
parent e3a1c149d2
commit 18c38f8aee
14 changed files with 296 additions and 108 deletions

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@@ -41,6 +41,19 @@ rec {
else if final.isNetBSD then "nblibc"
# TODO(@Ericson2314) think more about other operating systems
else "native/impure";
# Choose what linker we wish to use by default. Someday we might also
# choose the C compiler, runtime library, C++ standard library, etc. in
# this way, nice and orthogonally, and deprecate `useLLVM`. But due to
# the monolithic GCC build we cannot actually make those choices
# independently, so we are just doing `linker` and keeping `useLLVM` for
# now.
linker =
/**/ if final.useLLVM or false then "lld"
else if final.isDarwin then "cctools"
# "bfd" and "gold" both come from GNU binutils. The existance of Gold
# is why we use the more obscure "bfd" and not "binutils" for this
# choice.
else "bfd";
extensions = {
sharedLibrary =
/**/ if final.isDarwin then ".dylib"