Link with ld instead of gcc

[brson]

It seems silly to have this runtime dependency on gcc just for calling the linker. Calling ld will make #[link_args] and --link_args more accurate. Right now they would be better described as gcc_args.

[graydon]

Might want to ask rafael about this; the impression I got is that the amount of "how to invoke ld properly" brains embedded in gcc is so immense and platform-specific as to be prohibitive. Or at least very, very painful.

(IOW: "quantify a bit, before starting work on this"; I'm happy to be wrong)

[kud1ing]

Would LLD be helpful? http://lld.llvm.org/

[bstrie]

@kud1ing It would probably be incredibly helpful, but last I checked it was still very immature.

[kud1ing]

Ah: "lld is in its early stages of development."

[thestinger]

Does libclang expose a way to drive the linker? It seems like it would.

[emberian]

I'm considering removing E-easy because figuring out all the details of each systems' linker isn't going to be that easy.

[thestinger]

Closing in favour of #9367.