The version string can be customized by CMake options, so the 'LLVM
version' substring is not guaranteed to appear (see
VersionPrinter::print in llvm/lib/Support/CommandLine.cpp).
I have been trying to build CheriBSD (a fork for FreeBSD for the CHERI
CPU) with LLVM binutils instead of the default elftoolchain utilities.
I noticed that building static archives was failing because ranlib is
invoked with the -D flag. This failed with llvm-ranlib since it parses
the -D flag as the archive path and reports an error that more than one
archive has been passed.
This fixes https://llvm.org/PR41707
Reviewed By: rupprecht
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D71554
Also, fix a bug in ranlib where it didn't correctly detect being run
without any argument and would try to operate on the empty string.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D70021
Dmitri Gribenko