In static builds, due to our CMake design for auto-linking plugins
being incorrect we sometimes cause link failures on Linux in leaf
modules, because the link line order is incorrect.
So far such failures were fixed by explicitly modifying the order of
libraries on the link line in each failing CMake project.
This proves to be problematic because the failures appear in seemingly
random integrations that don't even touch the build system parts.
Until we fix the design, another less performant but more
general / safe way is to increase the link interface multiplicity,
which causes a cycle of libraries to be repeated more than 2 times
on the link line, thus giving the ld linker more chances to figure out
which symbols are needed for linking.
Implement this for Linux static builds to avoid random integration
failures for people that know nothing about this issue.
The link multiplicity for all qt modules is increased to 3, thus
QtGui would be repeated 3 times on the link line of each dependent
library. The value is also configurable via the
QT_LINK_CYCLE_MULTIPLICITY cache variable.
Task-number: QTBUG-83498
Change-Id: I2fd2bb2b5e7fec4e3ef5d1194668b524d20f7067
Reviewed-by: Joerg Bornemann <joerg.bornemann@qt.io>
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