Some of the Lix libraries always need to be linked in full due to their
reliance on static initializers. This was achieved internally using link_whole,
but they are still easy to abuse by external users who manually need to
remember passing linker flags such as `--whole-archive` (GNU) or `-force_load`
(Apple), and the obvious way to shove it in pkg-config breaks Meson due to
potentially including a library's flags multiple times, and then deduplicating
only the file names leaving a stale `-force_load` around causing trouble.
Instead we now "prelink" the static libraries, by merging them into one object
file. Since the static linker will always link entire object files, this will
have the same effect as whole-archive linking (except the library won't be
included if it's completely unused, which should not cause trouble since it's
unused after all, and dynamic libraries behave the same way). Unfortunately
Meson's native prelink functionality cannot be used due to missing (non-Apple)
Clang support [1], so write our own one. While not particularly portable, it
should work with Clang which is the only officially supported compiler, as well
as GCC.
[1] https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/14846
Change-Id: I6a6a6964a82241ce3b0b11fe8397fd451b8027f2
Alois Wohlschlager
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