compilers: Don't deduplicate -L= arguments

This breaks LDC and DMD, so just don't do it.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mesonbuild/compilers/compilers.py b/mesonbuild/compilers/compilers.py
index 1c0adff..436b09d 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/compilers/compilers.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/compilers/compilers.py
@@ -525,6 +525,15 @@ class CompilerArgs(collections.abc.MutableSequence):
         # both of which are invalid.
         if arg in cls.dedup2_prefixes:
             return 0
+        if arg.startswith('-L='):
+            # DMD and LDC proxy all linker arguments using -L=; in conjunction
+            # with ld64 on macOS this can lead to command line arguments such
+            # as: `-L=-compatibility_version -L=0 -L=current_version -L=0`.
+            # These cannot be combined, ld64 insists they must be passed with
+            # spaces and quoting does not work. if we deduplicate these then
+            # one of the -L=0 arguments will be removed and the version
+            # argument will consume the next argument instead.
+            return 0
         if arg in cls.dedup2_args or \
            arg.startswith(cls.dedup2_prefixes) or \
            arg.endswith(cls.dedup2_suffixes):