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ENH: Enable propagation of linker flags #1151

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This change allows customizing the linker flags at the superbuild level. The motivation behind this modification was to enable the use of the gold linker in 3D Slicer, as referenced in
Slicer/Slicer#7294, to expedite the linking phase during the build process.

@jcfr jcfr force-pushed the feature/enable_propagation_link_flags branch from fc5fa79 to e738c36 Compare October 30, 2023 19:59
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jcfr commented Oct 30, 2023

For reference, in an existing build tree, we wouldn't be overriding existing value:

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for f in $(fd "CMakeCache.txt$"); do
  echo "$f";
  cat $f | grep -E "^CMAKE_(SHARED|EXE|MODULE)_LINKER_FLAGS\:";
done
CMakeCache.txt
CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMakeFiles/ctkLinkerAsNeededFlagCheck/CMakeCache.txt
CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CTK-build/CMakeCache.txt
CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING='   '
CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CTK-build/CMakeFiles/ctkLinkerAsNeededFlagCheck/CMakeCache.txt
CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CTK-build/Utilities/DGraph/CMakeCache.txt
CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
DCMTK-build/CMakeCache.txt
CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
ITK-build/CMakeCache.txt
CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
ITK-build/ITKInternalEigen3-build/CMakeCache.txt
CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
ITK-build/Modules/Core/Common/CMakeTmp/ITK_PRIVATE_DYNAMIC_CAST/CMakeCache.txt
CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
Log4Qt-build/CMakeCache.txt
CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
PythonQt-build/CMakeCache.txt
CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
QtSOAP-build/CMakeCache.txt
CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
QtTesting-build/CMakeCache.txt
CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
Utilities/DGraph/CMakeCache.txt
CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
VTK-build/CMakeCache.txt
CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
VTK-build/Utilities/Python/CMakeTmp/vtk_undefined_symbols_allowed/CMakeCache.txt
CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING= -Wl,-lc
qRestAPI-build/CMakeCache.txt
CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
qxmlrpc-build/CMakeCache.txt
CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=
CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=

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@RafaelPalomar RafaelPalomar force-pushed the feature/enable_propagation_link_flags branch from 22daecd to 7a99ef3 Compare November 3, 2023 17:02
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Updated this PR and Slicer/Slicer#7294 to update CMakeCache.txt values related to gold linker. @jcfr

This change allows customizing the linker flags at the superbuild level.
The motivation behind this modification was to enable the use of the
gold linker in 3D Slicer, as referenced in
Slicer/Slicer#7294, to expedite the linking
phase during the build process.

Co-authored-by: Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin <jchris.fillionr@kitware.com>
@RafaelPalomar RafaelPalomar force-pushed the feature/enable_propagation_link_flags branch from 7a99ef3 to 9f0641f Compare November 3, 2023 17:05
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