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Rollup merge of #86558 - Smittyvb:link-error-sugg, r=petrochenkov
Add suggestions for "undefined reference" link errors This adds a suggestion for "undefined reference to ..." linking errors to install or specify the location to an external library. Since there is no defined error format for linkers, we just check if there was a failure and if that failure contains the string `undefined reference to`. This also makes it impossible to test this, since the output depends on the system linker. The output now looks like: ``` error: linking with `cc` failed: exit status: 1 | = note: "cc" "-m64" "linking_failure.linking_failure.7rcbfp3g-cgu.0.rcgu.o" "linking_failure.linking_failure.7rcbfp3g-cgu.1.rcgu.o" "linking_failure.linking_failure.7rcbfp3g-cgu.2.rcgu.o" "linking_failure.linking_failure.7rcbfp3g-cgu.3.rcgu.o" "linking_failure.linking_failure.7rcbfp3g-cgu.4.rcgu.o" "linking_failure.linking_failure.7rcbfp3g-cgu.5.rcgu.o" "linking_failure.linking_failure.7rcbfp3g-cgu.6.rcgu.o" "linking_failure.linking_failure.7rcbfp3g-cgu.7.rcgu.o" "linking_failure.linking_failure.7rcbfp3g-cgu.8.rcgu.o" "linking_failure.53u64zklswtfazes.rcgu.o" "-Wl,--as-needed" "-L" "/home/smit/rustc-dev/rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib" "-Wl,--start-group" "-Wl,-Bstatic" "/home/smit/rustc-dev/rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libstd-01ce3ba5c629d02f.rlib" "/home/smit/rustc-dev/rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libpanic_unwind-f1f2102409186354.rlib" "/home/smit/rustc-dev/rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libminiz_oxide-1e8b6b56a999f838.rlib" "/home/smit/rustc-dev/rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libadler-d0e93eb4e14f1d19.rlib" "/home/smit/rustc-dev/rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libobject-1d7e39d75d082b43.rlib" "/home/smit/rustc-dev/rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libaddr2line-ade42e945045b261.rlib" "/home/smit/rustc-dev/rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libgimli-1a65064fccf4ebc1.rlib" "/home/smit/rustc-dev/rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libstd_detect-4d699c310fdfe72d.rlib" "/home/smit/rustc-dev/rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/librustc_demangle-1cafa68a696ec800.rlib" "/home/smit/rustc-dev/rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libhashbrown-e9f1c8c4dab2f046.rlib" "/home/smit/rustc-dev/rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/librustc_std_workspace_alloc-ecc1a743be25c7f7.rlib" "/home/smit/rustc-dev/rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libunwind-e074031c4b66b6b6.rlib" "/home/smit/rustc-dev/rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libcfg_if-9aa6ed9f1d3bfd53.rlib" "/home/smit/rustc-dev/rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/liblibc-7862bf96c2250ca0.rlib" "/home/smit/rustc-dev/rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/liballoc-f02ce0dc7895b5fd.rlib" "/home/smit/rustc-dev/rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/librustc_std_workspace_core-3af9c60917570521.rlib" "/home/smit/rustc-dev/rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libcore-ca16fc7bb3645684.rlib" "-Wl,--end-group" "/home/smit/rustc-dev/rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libcompiler_builtins-d8e1a5b7299604cc.rlib" "-Wl,-Bdynamic" "-lgcc_s" "-lutil" "-lrt" "-lpthread" "-lm" "-ldl" "-lc" "-Wl,--eh-frame-hdr" "-Wl,-znoexecstack" "-L" "/home/smit/rustc-dev/rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib" "-o" "linking_failure" "-Wl,--gc-sections" "-pie" "-Wl,-zrelro" "-Wl,-znow" "-nodefaultlibs" = note: /usr/bin/ld: linking_failure.linking_failure.7rcbfp3g-cgu.3.rcgu.o: in function `linking_failure::main': linking_failure.7rcbfp3g-cgu.3:(.text._ZN15linking_failure4main17h52b6e3052e444479E+0x3): undefined reference to `doesnt_exist_thiwthwfyl' clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) = help: some `extern` functions couldn't be found; you may need to install or specify the path to some dependencies = note: use the -L flag to specify the library lookup path = note: use the cargo:rustc-link-search directive to specify the library lookup path with Cargo (see https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/build-scripts.html#rustc-link-search) error: aborting due to previous error ```
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if !prog.status.success() {
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let mut output = prog.stderr.clone();
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output.extend_from_slice(&prog.stdout);
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sess.struct_err(&format!(
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let escaped_output = escape_stdout_stderr_string(&output);
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let mut err = sess.struct_err(&format!(
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"linking with `{}` failed: {}",
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linker_path.display(),
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prog.status
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))
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.note(&format!("{:?}", &cmd))
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.note(&escape_stdout_stderr_string(&output))
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.emit();
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));
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err.note(&format!("{:?}", &cmd)).note(&escaped_output);
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if escaped_output.contains("undefined reference to") {
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err.help(
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"some `extern` functions couldn't be found; some native libraries may \
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need to be installed or have their path specified",
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);
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err.note("use the `-l` flag to specify native libraries to link");
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err.note("use the `cargo:rustc-link-lib` directive to specify the native \
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libraries to link with Cargo (see https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/build-scripts.html#cargorustc-link-libkindname)");
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}
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err.emit();
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// If MSVC's `link.exe` was expected but the return code
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// is not a Microsoft LNK error then suggest a way to fix or

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