dependencies/llvm: Fix shared linking on osx

The versions of LLVM provided by brew have the same configuration problem that
dragonflyBSD and FreeBSD do, which means that they produce wrong results for
shared linking.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/mesonbuild/dependencies/dev.py b/mesonbuild/dependencies/dev.py
index d8289c5..f20b9e0 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/dependencies/dev.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/dependencies/dev.py
@@ -260,13 +260,15 @@ class LLVMDependency(ConfigToolDependency):
 
     def _set_new_link_args(self):
         """How to set linker args for LLVM versions >= 3.9"""
-        if ((mesonlib.is_dragonflybsd() or mesonlib.is_freebsd()) and not
-                self.static and version_compare(self.version, '>= 4.0')):
+        if (not self.static and (mesonlib.is_osx() or
+                ((mesonlib.is_dragonflybsd() or mesonlib.is_freebsd()) and
+                 version_compare(self.version, '>= 4.0')))):
             # llvm-config on DragonFly BSD and FreeBSD for versions 4.0, 5.0,
             # and 6.0 have an error when generating arguments for shared mode
-            # linking, even though libLLVM.so is installed, because for some
-            # reason the tool expects to find a .so for each static library.
-            # This works around that.
+            # linking, even though libLLVM.so is installed, because llvm-config
+            # is misconfigured at build time.
+            # MacOS from brew has the same problem, except that it applies to
+            # all versions (3.9 - 7.0)
             self.link_args = self.get_config_value(['--ldflags'], 'link_args')
             self.link_args.append('-lLLVM')
             return