zig cc: unsupported linker arg: -rpath-link

[bjia56]

Zig Version

0.12.0-dev.2341+92211135f

Steps to Reproduce and Observed Behavior

Compile X11 from source, e.g. the following Dockerfile on x86_64:

FROM ubuntu:22.04

RUN apt update && \
    apt -y install wget build-essential git autoconf pkg-config python3 python3-pip
RUN wget https://ziglang.org/builds/zig-linux-x86_64-0.12.0-dev.2341+92211135f.tar.xz && \
    tar -xf zig*.tar.xz && \
    rm zig*.tar.xz
ENV PATH ${PATH}:/zig-linux-x86_64-0.12.0-dev.2341+92211135f
RUN pip install https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/archive/2baae24.zip ninja
RUN mkdir /build && mkdir /deps
WORKDIR /build

ARG TARGET=x86_64-linux-gnu.2.17
ENV AR="zig ar"
ENV CC="zig cc -target ${TARGET}"
ENV CXX="zig c++ -target ${TARGET}"

RUN zig version

RUN git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/util/modular util/modular && \
    ./util/modular/build.sh --clone /deps

Gives the following error:

37.10 [5/5] Linking target cvt/cvt
37.10 FAILED: cvt/cvt
37.10 zig cc -target x86_64-linux-gnu.2.17  -o cvt/cvt cvt/cvt.p/cvt.c.o -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--no-undefined '-Wl,-rpath,$ORIGIN/../lib' -Wl,-rpath-link,/build/lib/libxcvt/builddir/lib -Wl,--start-group lib/libxcvt.so.0.1.2 -lm -Wl,--end-group
37.10 error: unsupported linker arg: -rpath-link

Expected Behavior

X11 can be compiled from source when using zig cc

[louie-github]

I'm also encountering the same issue compiling libjxl:

[278/381] Linking CXX executable decode_oneshot
FAILED: decode_oneshot
: && /usr/sbin/zig  c++ -march=native -mtune=native -O3 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -flto=thin  -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fno-rtti -O3 -DNDEBUG -fPIE -pie CMakeFiles/decode_oneshot.dir/examples/decode_oneshot.cc.o -o decode_oneshot  -Wl,-rpath,/home/louie/dev/libjxl/build-zig/lib:/home/louie/dev/libjxl/build-zig/third_party/brotli  lib/libjxl_dec.so.0.10.1  lib/libjxl_threads.so.0.10.1  -Wl,-rpath-link,/home/louie/dev/libjxl/build-zig/third_party/brotli && :
error: unsupported linker arg: -rpath-link

[andy5995]

Related discussion on this meson PR

I've opened a separate PR to add zig to their ubuntu-rolling docker image.