Re: Request for testing on non-Linux targets; remove special casing of /usr/lib and /lib from the driver

[David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com>]

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The patch does not cause failures on AIX.  Is it removing explicit
references to /lib and /usr/lib?

It seems more appropriate for GCC 15.

Thanks for alerting me to the patch to test on AIX.  AIX is in CFarm.

Thanks David

On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 7:49 PM Andrew Pinski (QUIC) <
quic_apinski@quicinc.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>   The driver currently will remove "/lib" and "/usr/lib" from the library
> path that gets passed to the linker because it considers them as paths that
> the linker will already known to search. But this is not true for newer
> linkers, mold and lld for an example don't have a default search path.
> This patch removes the special casing to fix FreeBSD building where lld is
> used by default and also fix riscv-linux-gnu when used in combination with
> mold.
> I have tested it on x86_64-linux-gnu and it works there but since the code
> in the driver has been around since 1992, I request some folks to test it
> on AIX, Mac OS (Darwin) and solaris where the ld is not GNU bfd ld as I
> don't have access to those targets currently.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew Pinski
>