Clang attempts to guess file names based on the OS and distro (yes!),
but unfortunately, that doesn't work for us.

This patch makes it easy to insert libc's $libdir so that Clang passes the
correct absolute file name of crt1.o etc. to 'ld'.  It also disables all
the distro-specific stuff and removes the hard-coded FHS directory names
to make sure Clang also works on foreign distros.

diff --git a/lib/Driver/Distro.cpp b/lib/Driver/Distro.cpp
index f2a3074d..536db89c 100644
--- a/lib/Driver/Distro.cpp
+++ b/lib/Driver/Distro.cpp
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ using namespace clang::driver;
 using namespace clang;
 
 static Distro::DistroType DetectDistro(llvm::vfs::FileSystem &VFS) {
+  // The compiler should always behave the same, even when used via Guix on a
+  // foreign distro.
+  return Distro::UnknownDistro;
+
   llvm::ErrorOr<std::unique_ptr<llvm::MemoryBuffer>> File =
       VFS.getBufferForFile("/etc/lsb-release");
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-369,6 +373,7 @@ Linux::Linux(const Driver &D, const llvm::Triple &Triple, const ArgList &Args)
     }
   }
 
+#if 0
   // Similar to the logic for GCC above, if we currently running Clang inside
   // of the requested system root, add its parent library paths to
   // those searched.
@@ -414,6 +419,8 @@ Linux::Linux(const Driver &D, const llvm::Triple &Triple, const ArgList &Args)
   // Try walking via the GCC triple path in case of biarch or multiarch GCC
   // installations with strange symlinks.
   if (GCCInstallation.isValid()) {
+    // The following code would end up adding things like
+    // "/usr/lib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/../../lib64" to the search path.
     addPathIfExists(D,
                     SysRoot + "/usr/lib/" + GCCInstallation.getTriple().str() +
                         "/../../" + OSLibDir,
@@ -449,9 +456,14 @@ Linux::Linux(const Driver &D, const llvm::Triple &Triple, const ArgList &Args)
   // directory ('Dir' below) or the ResourceDir.
   if (StringRef(D.Dir).startswith(SysRoot))
     addPathIfExists(D, D.Dir + "/../lib", Paths);
+#endif
+
+  // Add libc's lib/ directory to the search path, so that crt1.o, crti.o,
+  // and friends can be found.
+  addPathIfExists(D, "@GLIBC_LIBDIR@", Paths);
 
-  addPathIfExists(D, SysRoot + "/lib", Paths);
-  addPathIfExists(D, SysRoot + "/usr/lib", Paths);
+  // Add GCC's lib/ directory so libstdc++.so can be found.
+  addPathIfExists(D, GCCInstallation.getParentLibPath(), Paths);
 }
 
 ToolChain::CXXStdlibType Linux::GetDefaultCXXStdlibType() const {