[Bug ld/25806] New: [ld] Search for input files relative to the current linker script

[i at maskray dot me]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25806

            Bug ID: 25806
           Summary: [ld] Search for input files relative to the current
                    linker script
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.35 (HEAD)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: ld
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: i at maskray dot me
  Target Milestone: ---

This is a feature request.

commit 51dee2fec3afad5e6fc9f78b8c1d8486ebf3a334 added the feature for gold.

// p/libm.a
INPUT(libm.a.1)

gold a.o p/libm.a

gold can find p/libm.a.1 even if -L p is not specified. gold names the
directory `extra_search_path` and prefers it over -L:

 // If the filename is not absolute, we assume it is in the current
 // directory *except* when:
 //    A) input_argument_->is_lib() is true; or
 //    B) input_argument_->extra_search_path() is not empty.
 // In both cases, we look in extra_search_path + library_path to find
 // the file location, rather than the current directory.

In theory, if we had this feature many years ago. For glibc libm.a

% cat /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.a
/* GNU ld script
*/
OUTPUT_FORMAT(elf64-x86-64)
GROUP ( /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm-2.29.a
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmvec.a )

We can simplify the script to:

GROUP(libm-2.29.a libmvec.a)

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