bug#27866: Handle clang's internal libraries when finding compiler's internal libraries

[Alex Ameen]

Earlier this week I read through the thread, and created a patch based 
on the ones posted. This was checked if you would like to experiment 
with it.

What I did notice was that this change has a wider effect than the 
problem statement initially suggests. I'm not crazy about the way it has 
a conditional behavior for two specific libraries since it is an ad-hoc 
solution directed at two compiler-collections, as opposed to a general 
purpose solution; but for the time being I see this as a practical change.

As a side effect this change should also resolve issues with certain 
flag-specs such as `-fsanitize' which is nice; but the impact of unknown 
side effects is something I expect will rear its head in the near 
future. With that in mind, I think this is a necessary change, but I 
want to express up front that "I'm confident this will break a lot of 
existing builds, and I consider this to be a first draft".

I would greatly appreciate y'all taking this for a spin on any available 
projects you have to get a sense of how it will behave "in the field". 
This change really effects "unspecified behavior" that the test-suite 
isn't designed to audit, but nonetheless has a practical effect on users.

On 5/6/22 04:59, Shea Levy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there any status on this?
>
> Thanks,
> Shea
>
> Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st> writes:
>
> > Hi Alex,
> > I've understood you're a new maintainer of libtool. Can you have a look at this 
> > bug (https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=27866)?
> > In the last few posts, there's a couple patches attached. They have been used 
> > downstream within e.g. MSYS2 since a couple years: