wild-linker/wild 0.6.0

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274 commits since the last release.

• Installation changes
  • Now requires at least rust 1.89.0 to build #1065 (lapla-cogito)
  • We no longer have an installer script (sorry) #1093 (davidlattimore)
  • Wild's release builds are now linked with wild #1093 (davidlattimore)
• Mold's test suite is now run in CI #903 (lapla-cogito)
• Override -shared by (-no)-pie #1095 (mati865)
• Emit error if as-yet unsupported .symver directive is used #1089 (marxin)
• Discard sections with exclude bit set #1077 (lqd)
• Do not look up files from args in search paths #1058 (mati865)
• Support escaping in version scripts #1053 (lapla-cogito)
• Avoid adding input files multiple times #1057 (mati865)
• Fix R_X86_64_GOTPC32_TLSDESC relaxations #1051 (marxin)
• Improve error message when LTO objects cause undefined symbols #1050 (AadiWaghray)
• Support -z interpose #1048 (lapla-cogito)
• Obtain verdefnum from verdef section header #1041 (mati865)
• Added support for CREL #981 (marxin)
• Support --help #1029 (lapla-cogito)
• Support -z undefs #1030 (AadiWaghray)
• Support --time=cycles,instructions,cache-misses etc #1027 (davidlattimore)
• Don't error when there are multiple alias definitions pointing to the same symbol #1021
  (lapla-cogito)
• Autoformat C/C++ test code #1006 (mati865)
• Implement --allow-multiple-definition and -z muldefs #1015 (lapla-cogito)
• Implement more arguments for exporting symbols #974 (mati865)
• Add --unresolved-symbols= and --{warn, error}-unresolved-symbols options support #993
  (lapla-cogito)
• Discard empty string-merge sections. Fixes #932 (davidlattimore)
• Write dynsym in parallel. Fixes #1000 (davidlattimore)
• Compute dynamic symbols versions during layout. #1000 (davidlattimore)
• Fix infinite loop on string-merge errors. #1008 (davidlattimore)
• Implement --wrap. #998 (davidlattimore)
• Support extern "C" and extern "C++" in version scripts. #963 (marxin), #1004 (mati865)
• Allow parallelism when resolving symbols for an object. #1001 (davidlattimore)
• Implement proper symbol lookup in a collections of versions #972 (marxin)
• Fix handling of custom NOBITS TLS sections #966 (davidlattimore)
• Use segment rather than section layout for TLS addresses #975 (davidlattimore)
• Change behaviour of --no-allow-shlib-undefined to match lld #897 (davidlattimore)
• Put custom TLS section into TLS segment #965 (davidlattimore)
• Don't emit non-standard .phdr and .shdr section headers #957 (davidlattimore)
• Support -R option if it points to a directory #956 (marxin)
• Version script glob support #943 (marxin)
• Added jobserver support #923 (marxin)
• Improve symbol priority handling #826 (davidlattimore)
• Don't propagate retain bit to output sections #914 (davidlattimore)
• linker-diff: Handle empty .got #831 (Noratrieb)
• Allow undefined symbols in shared objects to trigger archive entries #930 (davidlattimore)
• Report errors as coming from wild and add some colour #896 (davidlattimore)
• Input shared objects now implies -shared #879 (mati865)
• Support --no-relax only for mandatory situations #885 (mati865)
• Don't report shlib undefined when writing an shlib #884 (davidlattimore)
• Add support for --[no-]allow-shlib-undefined #881 (davidlattimore)
• Use TLS end-offset for TLSLD GOT entry in executables #882 (davidlattimore)
• Allow R_X86_64_GOTPC32_TLSDESC for all executable outputs. Fixes #849 (marxin)
• Add Nix package, overlay, stdenv adapter, and flake. #847 (RossSmyth with help from dawnofmidnight
  and Noratrieb)
• Add support for -z defs #850 (AadiWaghray)
• Fix when TLSDESC and TLSDESC_CALL aren't adjacent. Fixes #842 (davidlattimore)
• Fix infinite loop when we have no input files. Fixes #835 (davidlattimore)
• Add flag non-standard flag --got-plt-syms #827 (lapla-cogito)
• Parallelise opening of input files. #816 (davidlattimore)
• Sort .eh_frame_hdr in parallel. #824 (davidlattimore)
• Add support for --exclude-libs ALL. #812 (davidlattimore)
• Don't apply -Bsymbolic* to undefined symbols (davidlattimore)
• Don't error if debug info references undefined / GCed symbol
• Alias -shared to -Bshareable (lapla-cogito)
• Support -Bsymbolic, -Bsymbolic-non-weak, -Bsymbolic-non-weak-functions and -Bno-symbolic
  #782 (lapla-cogito)
• RISC-V support #704 + other commits (marxin)
• save-dir:
  • Skip non-existent paths #829 (Noratrieb)
  • Handle @filename and thin archives #777 (davidlattimore)
  • Replicate original directory structure. #575 (davidlattimore)
• Improve handling of relative sysroots #772 (davidlattimore)
• Support -Bsymbolic-functions #770 (lapla-cogito)
• Use debug info to show where error came from #768 (davidlattimore)
• Update .preinit_array section locations and flags #761 (marxin)
• Set DT_PREINIT_ARRAY{,SZ} if .preinit_array is present #759 (marxin)

Thanks to everyone who has sponsored davidlattimore, in particular the following people who have sponsored at least $30 since the last release:

• CodeursenLiberte
• pmarks
• mati865
• repi
• Urgau
• teburd
• flba-eb
• tommythorn
• binarybana
• bcmyers
• Kobzol
• HadrienG2
• bes
• twilco
• mstange
• marxin
• joshtriplett
• jonhoo