[SR-6082] Produce a better error message if Swift is run on a system without clang++

[belkadan]

Previous ID	SR-6082
Radar	rdar://problem/23197056
Original Reporter	@belkadan
Type	Improvement

Additional Detail from JIRA

Votes	0
Component/s	Compiler
Labels	Improvement, Driver, Linux, StarterBug
Assignee	None
Priority	Medium

md5: 0ed0a272c70aa068a13e89f859372a45

relates to:

• SR-834 Very unhelpful error message when clang++ cannot be invoked

Issue Description:

Swift on Linux (and other non-Apple platforms) calls clang++ to perform linking; if it's not found, we used to get this lousy error message:

<unknown>:0: error: link command failed with exit code 127 (use -v to see invocation)

We should do better. (It's possible we already do do better; I just don't have access to a Linux system without clang++ installed at the moment. If you have such a system, you can help out with this bug by downloading Swift from https://swift.org/download/ and seeing what echo 'print("hello")' | swiftc - produces.)

[swift-ci]

Comment by Alistair McMillan (JIRA)

On a brand new install of Ubuntu 16.04 running echo 'print("hello")' | swiftc - produces the following message...

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.22' not found (required by ./swiftc

So I updated libstdc++ using instructions from https://stackoverflow.com/a/46613765/35794 and now running echo 'print("hello")' | swiftc - produces...

<unknown>:0: error: link command failed with exit code 127 (use -v to see invocation)