jhuber6 added inline comments.

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Comment at: clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/AMDGPU.cpp:546
   addLinkerCompressDebugSectionsOption(getToolChain(), Args, CmdArgs);
   AddLinkerInputs(getToolChain(), Inputs, Args, CmdArgs, JA);
+  Args.AddAllArgs(CmdArgs, options::OPT_L);
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MaskRay wrote:
> jhuber6 wrote:
> > yaxunl wrote:
> > > jhuber6 wrote:
> > > > yaxunl wrote:
> > > > > AddLinkerInputs has code doing that, and it handles env var 
> > > > > LIBRARY_PATH. However that code is disabled for AMDGPU because AMDGPU 
> > > > > returns true for isCrossCompiling.
> > > > > 
> > > > > https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/CommonArgs.cpp#L236
> > > > > 
> > > > > It seems isCrossCompiling is solely for controlling whether to 
> > > > > consume `-L`. If we want amdgpu toolchain to accept `-L`, we can 
> > > > > simply let isCrossCompiling return false.
> > > > Good catch, we could maybe set `isCrossCompiling` to false if targeted 
> > > > directly by the user, e.g. `--target=amdgcn-amd-amdhsa` vs 
> > > > `--offload-arch`.
> > > That would be better. Thanks.
> > It still is technically cross compiling, since we are building for a target 
> > that does not match the system's architecture. The original code that 
> > prevents passing `-L` was contributed by @MaskRay. I understand that we may 
> > not want to pass `LIBRARY_PATH` defines, but what's the rationale for not 
> > passing any `-L` options manually specified by the user?
> The `LIBRARY_PATH` code had been there when I moved it in 2019. It'd be best 
> not to rely on `LIBRARY_PATH`. I think that forwarding `-L` seems reasonable 
> but I am not familiar with the amdgpu ecosystem..
The linker is just `lld` so it should be the same conceptually. I'm just 
figuring that even if the user is cross compiling we should respect `-L` passed 
on the command line. Should I change this patch to make that change?


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