[issue25229] distutils doesn't add "-Wl, " prefix to "-R" on Linux if the C compiler isn't named 'gcc'

[François Bissey]

François Bissey added the comment:

I am seeing this with clang on linux. It breaks the building pyzmq. I'll concur with Calvin that using just "-R" is wrong in the first place. Some compiler may pass it directly to the linker. But even in the linker, interpreting "-R" as a rpath if the argument is a directory, is a legacy behavior. "-R" is supposed to be used to add remarks (see ld's man page).
On linux it should just be "-Wl,-rpath" and it should work with all compilers.

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