autotools: avoid passing `LDFLAGS` twice to libcurl
autotools passes `LDFLAGS` automatically linker commands. curl's
`lib/Makefile.am` customizes libcurl linker flags. In that
customization, it added `LDFLAGS` to the custom flags. This resulted in
passing `LDFLAGS` _twice_ to the `libtool` command.
Most of the time this is benign, but some `LDFLAGS` options can break
the build when passed twice. One such example is passing `.o` files,
e.g. `crt*.o` files necessary when customizing the C runtime, e.g. for
MUSL builds.
Passing them twice resulted in duplicate symbol errors:
```
libtool: link: clang-15 --target=aarch64-unknown-linux-musl [...] /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-musl/crt1.o [...] /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-musl/crt1.o [...]
ld.lld-15: error: duplicate symbol: _start
>>> defined at crt1.c
>>> /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-musl/crt1.o:(.text+0x0)
>>> defined at crt1.c
>>> /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-musl/crt1.o:(.text+0x0)
[...]
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
```
This behaviour came with commit 1a593191c2769a47b8c3e4d9715ec9f6dddf5e36
(2013-07-23) as a fix for bug https://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1217.
The patch was a works-for-me hack that ended up merged in curl:
https://sourceforge.net/p/curl/bugs/1217/#06ef
With the root cause remaining unclear.
Perhaps the SUNPro 12 linker was sensitive to `-L` `-l` order, requiring
`-L` first? This would be unusual and suggests a bug in either the
linker or in `libtool`.
The curl build does pass the list of detected libs via its own
`LIBCURL_LIBS` variable, which ends up before `LDFLAGS` on the `libtool`
command line, but it's the job of `libtool` to ensure that even
a peculiar linker gets the options in the expected order. Also because
autotools passes `LDFLAGS` last, making it hardly possible to pass
anything after it.
Perhaps in the 10 years since this issue, this already got a fix
upstream.
This patch deletes `LDFLAGS` from our customized libcurl options,
leaving a single copy of them as passed by autotools automatically.
Reverts 1a593191c2769a47b8c3e4d9715ec9f6dddf5e36
Closes #12310
Viktor Szakats