Linking against native libs with ldc and bfd as linker is broken

Describe the bug
When linking against native (C) libs in D projects the linkage is broken with ldc.

I'm linking against libssl in my project (its a dependency of a static lib), meson calls ldc2 like so:

ldc2  -of=tests/apkd_dbus_server/test_apkd_dbus_server_update_d_exe 'tests/apkd_dbus_server/2c061b1@@test_apkd_dbus_server_update_d_exe@exe/update.d.o' -L=-rpath '-L=$ORIGIN/../../src/apkd_common:$ORIGIN/../../src/apkd:$ORIGIN/../../subprojects/apk-tools/src:$ORIGIN/../../subprojects/apk-tools/libfetch:$ORIGIN/../../src/apkd_dbus_server:$ORIGIN/../apkd_test_common:/usr/local/lib' -L=-rpath-link -L=/home/rasmus/Projects/apk-polkit/_build/src/apkd_common -L=-rpath-link -L=/home/rasmus/Projects/apk-polkit/_build/src/apkd -L=-rpath-link -L=/home/rasmus/Projects/apk-polkit/_build/subprojects/apk-tools/src -L=-rpath-link -L=/home/rasmus/Projects/apk-polkit/_build/subprojects/apk-tools/libfetch -L=-rpath-link -L=/usr/local/lib -L=-rpath-link -L=/home/rasmus/Projects/apk-polkit/_build/src/apkd_dbus_server -L=-rpath-link -L=/home/rasmus/Projects/apk-polkit/_build/tests/apkd_test_common -L=--allow-shlib-undefined -L=--start-group -link-defaultlib-shared -L=src/apkd_common/libapkd_common.so -L=src/apkd/libapkd.so -L=src/apkd_dbus_server/libapkd-dbus-server.so -L=src/apkd_dbus_server/libapkd-dbus-client.so -L=tests/apkd_test_common/libapkd_tests_common.so -L=subprojects/apk-tools/src/libapk.a -L=subprojects/apk-tools/libfetch/libfetch.a /usr/lib/libglibd-2.0.so -L=--export-dynamic /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/lib/libintl.so /usr/local/lib/libpolkit-gobjectd-1.so /usr/lib/libpolkit-gobject-1.so /usr/local/lib/libapk-toolsd.so /usr/lib/libssl.so /usr/lib/libcrypto.so /lib/libz.so -L=--end-group

Which doesn't work, it throws errors because it can't find libssl's symbols:

/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/9.3.0/../../../../x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/bin/ld.bfd: subprojects/apk-tools/src/libapk.a(database.c.o): in function `apk_checksum_evp':
/home/rasmus/Projects/apk-polkit/_build/../subprojects/apk-tools/src/apk_blob.h:55: undefined reference to `EVP_md5'

If I put a -L=-ssl in front of the --end-group on ldc2's command line it works. It also works fine with dmd.

To Reproduce

Currently only reproducible in https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/Cogitri/apk-polkit/-/tree/ci . I'll see if I can get a minimal project together if required.

Expected behavior
Meson should pass the right linking parameters to ldc2

system parameters

• Is this a cross build or just a plain native build (for the same computer)? Native build
• what operating system (e.g. MacOS Catalina, Windows 10, CentOS 8.0, Ubuntu 18.04, etc.) Linux
• what meson --version 0.54

Reproduce the failure using the apk-polkit CI branch and the Meson-generated ldc2 command shown in the report. Trace how Meson handles native-library linker arguments for ldc2 with the bfd linker, then verify that the OpenSSL symbols link without the manual -L=-ssl workaround and add regression coverage if the project provides a suitable test location.