Option to use `--linkopt=-fuse-ld=ld64.lld` flag does not respect `absolute_paths = True`
https://github.com/bazel-contrib/toolchains_llvm/blob/f0a43a598b8f0e69c6402fe964e336220fc3c4c9/toolchain/osx_cc_wrapper.sh.tpl#L76-L77
When absolute_paths = True, the toolchain_path_prefix variable is an absolute path, so attempting to prefix it with execroot_abs_path means that the execroot absolute path is duplicated, leading clang to fail to invoke the linker.
❯ bazel build //parser/parser:generate_diagnostics
WARNING: Build option --linkopt has changed, discarding analysis cache (this can be expensive, see https://bazel.build/advanced/performance/iteration-speed).
INFO: Analyzed target //parser/parser:generate_diagnostics (68 packages loaded, 368 targets configured).
ERROR: /Users/jez/sandbox/bazel_example/parser/parser/BUILD:1:10: Linking parser/parser/generate_diagnostics failed: (Exit 1): cc_wrapper.sh failed: error executing CppLink command (from target //parser/parser:generate_diagnostics) external/llvm_toolchain_15_0_7/bin/cc_wrapper.sh @bazel-out/darwin_arm64-fastbuild/bin/parser/parser/generate_diagnostics-2.params
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clang: error: invalid linker name in argument '-fuse-ld=/private/var/tmp/_bazel/2e52735c4d41272832995da68cda80bb/sandbox/darwin-sandbox/8/execroot/_main//private/var/tmp/_bazel/2e52735c4d41272832995da68cda80bb/external/llvm_toolchain_15_0_7_llvm/bin/ld64.lld'
Target //parser/parser:generate_diagnostics failed to build
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INFO: Elapsed time: 1.063s, Critical Path: 0.69s
INFO: 6 processes: 5 internal, 1 darwin-sandbox.
ERROR: Build did NOT complete successfully
In the error message, this:
/private/var/tmp/_bazel/2e52735c4d41272832995da68cda80bb/sandbox/darwin-sandbox/8/execroot/_main//private/var/tmp/_bazel/2e52735c4d41272832995da68cda80bb/external/llvm_toolchain_15_0_7_llvm/bin/ld64.lld
needs to be this:
/private/var/tmp/_bazel/2e52735c4d41272832995da68cda80bb/external/llvm_toolchain_15_0_7_llvm/bin/ld64.lld
or else the file does not exist.
This appeared in #286, which was a fix for #212.
I didn't see an easy way to access absolute_paths from inside the cc_wrapper.sh file, so I just applied a patch like this to make progress:
if [[ -f "%{toolchain_path_prefix}bin/ld64.lld" ]]; then
echo "-fuse-ld=%{toolchain_path_prefix}bin/ld64.lld"
else
echo "-fuse-ld=${execroot_abs_path}%{toolchain_path_prefix}bin/ld64.lld"
fi
which is bad for its own reasons (if that file happens to exist, it might be the wrong one?) but I'm not sure if that matters. At the very least, it's not explicit to the user what's going on and deserves a comment that this condition needs to be here in support of absolute_paths.
Feel free to use this code or another solution at your leisure.