CMake: use a custom linker

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The link command line is set in Modules/CMake{C,CXX,Fortran}Information.cmake and defaults to using the compiler, not CMAKE_LINKER (see source code). This can be changed by replacing the rule that builds the link command line, which lives in variables CMAKE_CXX_LINK_EXECUTABLE (and friends). NB that variable does not indicate the path to the linker executable; it says how to link an executable!

One approach is to set that rule to use the linker, e.g.

cmake -DCMAKE_LINKER=/path/to/linker -DCMAKE_CXX_LINK_EXECUTABLE="<CMAKE_LINKER> <FLAGS> <CMAKE_CXX_LINK_FLAGS> <LINK_FLAGS> <OBJECTS> -o <TARGET> <LINK_LIBRARIES>"

See also this post from CMake mailing list and this one – this also makes a natural place to prepend a linker modifier to another linker.

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