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authorJorge Aparicio <japaricious@gmail.com>2016-09-19 02:32:28 -0500
committerJorge Aparicio <japaricious@gmail.com>2016-09-19 02:48:08 -0500
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rustc: implement -C link-arg
this flag lets you pass a _single_ argument to the linker but can be
used _repeatedly_. For example, instead of using:

```
rustc -C link-args='-l bar' (..)
```

you could write

```
rustc -C link-arg='-l' -C link-arg='bar' (..)
```

This new flag can be used with RUSTFLAGS where `-C link-args` has
problems with "nested" spaces:

```
RUSTFLAGS='-C link-args="-Tlayout.ld -nostartfiles"'
```

This passes three arguments to rustc: `-C` `link-args="-Tlayout.ld` and
`-nostartfiles"` to `rustc`. That's not what we meant. But this does
what we want:

```
RUSTFLAGS='-C link-arg=-Tlayout.ld -C link-arg=-nostartfiles`
```

cc rust-lang/rfcs#1509
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