On 2020-12-28, H.J. Lu wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 11:49 AM Fangrui Song via Libc-alpha
><libc-alpha@sourceware.org> wrote:
>>
>> When using lld as the linker, configure prints a confusing message.
>>
>> *** These critical programs are missing or too old: GNU ld
>>
>> lld>=8 can build glibc with very few patches. lld may be built with a
>> custom version information (e.g. git commit ID), so a version check is not
>> useful at all.
>
>But not all versions of lld can be used to build glibc.  Please find a way
>to check the working lld version.

Replaced this with "configure: Allow LD to be LLD 9.0.0 or above" in https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/maskray/lld

8.0.0 needs an additional workaround. Since 9.0.0 is quite common in
distributions, I just set the baseline to 9.0.0 to reduce friction.