It (introduced by 556d713c70) appears to be
related to the removed dragonegg project. In addition, the feature was a bit
misnamed and may lur users to unnecessarily use it.
Instead of accepting the same arguments as regular linker,
the static linker will only accept input files.
Reviewed By: yaxunl
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D85442
Add GNU Static Lib Tool, which supports the --emit-static-lib
flag. For HIP, a static library archive will be created and
consist of HIP Fat Binary host object with the device images embedded.
Using llvm-ar to create the static archive. Also, delete existing
output file to ensure a new archive is created each time.
Reviewers: yaxunl, tra, rjmccall, echristo
Subscribers: echristo, JonChesterfield, scchan, msearles
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D78759