dependencies/LLVM: rework shared link detection to be more robust

Instead of trying to hardcode which versions of which OSes are
misconfiguring llvm-config, lets try to use a generic mechanism that
catches most of the broken cases.

If a dynamic lib is built but the tools are linked staticly
(LLVM_BUILD_LLVM_DYLIB=true and LLVM_LINK_LLVM_DYLIB=false) and you
don't enabled shared libs (LLVM_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=false, which should be
false), then llvm-config will mistakenly return a each static library
with .(so|dll|dylib) appended, instead of -lLLVM-x.y.z. if
LLVM_LINK_LLVM_DYlIB is true this works fine. There's been a bug opened
in upstream since 2014 about this with no responses[1].

So, this patches looks at --shared-mode (which tells us whether
llvm-config was linked staticly or dynamicly), then if the shared-mode
is static it will check and see what it gets. If it gets valid results
then it will go with those, if it doesn't then it will try to build a
set of valid link arguments to link with libLLVM.(so|dll|dylib).

[1] https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19937

mesonbuild/dependencies/dev.py

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 # development purposes, such as testing, debugging, etc..
 
 import functools
+import glob
 import os
 import re
 
@@ -27,6 +28,17 @@ from .base import (
 )
 
 
+def get_shared_library_suffix(environment, native):
+    """This is only gauranteed to work for languages that compile to machine
+    code, not for languages like C# that use a bytecode and always end in .dll
+    """
+    if mesonlib.for_windows(native, environment):
+        return '.dll'
+    elif mesonlib.for_darwin(native, environment):
+        return '.dylib'
+    return '.so'
+
+
 class GTestDependency(ExternalDependency):
     def __init__(self, environment, kwargs):
         super().__init__('gtest', environment, 'cpp', kwargs)
@@ -235,7 +247,7 @@ class LLVMDependency(ConfigToolDependency):
         self.compile_args = list(cargs.difference(self.__cpp_blacklist))
 
         if version_compare(self.version, '>= 3.9'):
-            self._set_new_link_args()
+            self._set_new_link_args(environment)
         else:
             self._set_old_link_args()
         self.link_args = strip_system_libdirs(environment, self.link_args)
@@ -258,20 +270,63 @@ class LLVMDependency(ConfigToolDependency):
                 new_args.append(arg)
         return new_args
 
-    def _set_new_link_args(self):
+    def __check_libfiles(self, shared):
+        """Use llvm-config's --libfiles to check if libraries exist."""
+        mode = '--link-shared' if shared else '--link-static'
+
+        # Set self.required to true to force an exception in get_config_value
+        # if the returncode != 0
+        restore = self.required
+        self.required = True
+
+        try:
+            # It doesn't matter what the stage is, the caller needs to catch
+            # the exception anyway.
+            self.link_args = self.get_config_value(['--libfiles', mode], '')
+        finally:
+            self.required = restore
+
+    def _set_new_link_args(self, environment):
         """How to set linker args for LLVM versions >= 3.9"""
-        if (not self.static and (mesonlib.is_osx() or
+        mode = self.get_config_value(['--shared-mode'], 'link_args')[0]
-                ((mesonlib.is_dragonflybsd() or mesonlib.is_freebsd()) and
+        if not self.static and mode == 'static':
-                 version_compare(self.version, '>= 4.0')))):
+            # If llvm is configured with LLVM_BUILD_LLVM_DYLIB but not with
-            # llvm-config on DragonFly BSD and FreeBSD for versions 4.0, 5.0,
+            # LLVM_LINK_LLVM_DYLIB and not LLVM_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS (which
-            # and 6.0 have an error when generating arguments for shared mode
+            # upstreams doesn't recomend using), then llvm-config will lie to
-            # linking, even though libLLVM.so is installed, because llvm-config
+            # you about how to do shared-linking. It wants to link to a a bunch
-            # is misconfigured at build time.
+            # of individual shared libs (which don't exist because llvm wasn't
-            # MacOS from brew has the same problem, except that it applies to
+            # built with LLVM_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS.
-            # all versions (3.9 - 7.0)
+            #
-            self.link_args = self.get_config_value(['--ldflags'], 'link_args')
+            # Therefore, we'll try to get the libfiles, if the return code is 0
-            self.link_args.append('-lLLVM')
+            # or we get an empty list, then we'll try to build a working
-            return
+            # configuration by hand.
+            try:
+                self.__check_libfiles(True)
+            except DependencyException:
+                lib_ext = get_shared_library_suffix(environment, self.native)
+                libdir = self.get_config_value(['--libdir'], 'link_args')[0]
+                # Sort for reproducability
+                matches = sorted(glob.iglob(os.path.join(libdir, 'libLLVM*{}'.format(lib_ext))))
+                if not matches:
+                    if self.required:
+                        raise
+                    return
+
+                self.link_args = self.get_config_value(['--ldflags'], 'link_args')
+                libname = os.path.basename(matches[0]).rstrip(lib_ext).lstrip('lib')
+                self.link_args.append('-l{}'.format(libname))
+                return
+        elif self.static and mode == 'shared':
+            # If, however LLVM_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS is true # (*cough* gentoo *cough*)
+            # then this is correct. Building with LLVM_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS has a side
+            # effect, it stops the generation of static archives. Therefore we need
+            # to check for that and error out on static if this is the case
+            try:
+                self.__check_libfiles(False)
+            except DependencyException:
+                if self.required:
+                    raise
+
         link_args = ['--link-static', '--system-libs'] if self.static else ['--link-shared']
         self.link_args = self.get_config_value(
             ['--libs', '--ldflags'] + link_args + list(self.required_modules),