From 947874703b5e9701f2697aefc8d9eb9f7ed04407 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 16:57:52 -0400
Subject: configure: Only probe for LD in FIND_LD

Since 6be2c5a7e9187fc14d51e1ec32ca235143bb0d8b we would probe for LD
rather early in `configure`. However, it turns out that this breaks
`configure`'s `ld`-override logic, which assumes that `LD` was set by
the user and aborts.

Fixes #21778.
---
 configure.ac | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 9bcfae04c6..e6c9ed6ec7 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -356,7 +356,8 @@ else
     AC_PATH_PROG([CC],[gcc], [clang])
     AC_PATH_PROG([CXX],[g++], [clang++])
     AC_PATH_PROG([NM],[nm])
-    AC_PATH_PROG([LD],[ld])
+    # N.B. we don't probe for LD here but instead
+    # do so in FIND_LD to avoid #21778.
     AC_PATH_PROG([AR],[ar])
     AC_PATH_PROG([RANLIB],[ranlib])
     AC_PATH_PROG([OBJDUMP],[objdump])
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