Re: [PATCH] Accept LLD as a GNU ld compatible linker

[Brad Smith]

On 4/4/2020 12:40 AM, Fangrui Song wrote:

> The ELF port of LLD (the LLVM linker) is a drop-in replacement for GNU
> ld and is widely used nowadays.
>
> https://reviews.llvm.org/D31199 added a User-Agent style hack to make
> libtool recognize lld as a GNU ld compatible linker, but it would be
> nice to support the "LLD" version string directly so that LLD can
> eventually get rid of the hack.

libtool already works fine as is without the patch. The "hack" will never be
removed.