Special-case paths that appear in libs by not prefixing them with -l.

tools/gn/config_values_generator.cc

Index: tools/gn/config_values_generator.cc
diff --git a/tools/gn/config_values_generator.cc b/tools/gn/config_values_generator.cc
index ca87d6363aea35c7df189f62ebb8ae1c0f012764..86ec02ef3ac1f03630a087bedeaa57797e2c81d3 100644
--- a/tools/gn/config_values_generator.cc
+++ b/tools/gn/config_values_generator.cc
@@ -79,11 +79,19 @@ void ConfigValuesGenerator::Run() {
   FILL_DIR_CONFIG_VALUE(   include_dirs)
   FILL_STRING_CONFIG_VALUE(ldflags)
   FILL_DIR_CONFIG_VALUE(   lib_dirs)
-  FILL_STRING_CONFIG_VALUE(libs)
 
 #undef FILL_STRING_CONFIG_VALUE
 #undef FILL_DIR_CONFIG_VALUE
 
+  // Libs
+  const Value* libs_value = scope_->GetValue("libs", true);
+  if (libs_value) {
+    std::vector<LibFile> result;

[brettw, 2015/12/18 00:04:55]

I think you can avoid this temporary and have ExtractListOfLibs write directly
into config_values_->libs().

[agrieve, 2015/12/18 15:39:07]

Done.

+    ExtractListOfLibs(scope_->settings()->build_settings(), *libs_value,
+                      input_dir_, &result, err_);
+    config_values_->libs().swap(result);
+  }
+
   // Precompiled headers.
   const Value* precompiled_header_value =
       scope_->GetValue(variables::kPrecompiledHeader, true);