Rollup merge of rust-lang#89865 - tmandry:llvm-static, r=Mark-Simulacrum

Allow static linking LLVM with ThinLTO

There's no reason not to allow this if the user wants it. It works, at least in a local build on linux host.

For our use case, we're happy to spend more time building the compiler if it creates a speedup every time we run it, and we've observed speedups like this with clang.

Author: matthiaskrgr

src/bootstrap/config.rs

@@ -825,15 +825,10 @@ impl Config {
                 };
             }
 
-            if config.llvm_thin_lto {
-                // If we're building with ThinLTO on, we want to link to LLVM
-                // shared, to avoid re-doing ThinLTO (which happens in the link
-                // step) with each stage.
-                assert_ne!(
-                    llvm.link_shared,
-                    Some(false),
-                    "setting link-shared=false is incompatible with thin-lto=true"
-                );
+            if config.llvm_thin_lto && llvm.link_shared.is_none() {
+                // If we're building with ThinLTO on, by default we want to link
+                // to LLVM shared, to avoid re-doing ThinLTO (which happens in
+                // the link step) with each stage.
                 config.llvm_link_shared = true;
             }
         }