meson: "Unable to detect linker for compiler" error in an osx cross-compile environment

Ran into it while trying to build dav1d project for macos/x64, using meson-1.0.2 with python 3.7 on i686-linux. The following copied from meson-log.txt:

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Detecting compiler via: /tmp/cc.sh --version
compiler returned <subprocess.Popen object at 0xb70d6e6c>
compiler stdout:
clang version 3.4.2 (tags/RELEASE_34/dot2-final)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin9
Thread model: posix

compiler stderr:

Running command: /tmp/cc.sh -E -dM -
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Detecting linker via: /tmp/cc.sh -Wl,--version
linker returned <subprocess.Popen object at 0xb68dafec>
linker stdout:

linker stderr:
ld: unknown option: --version
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

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Detecting Apple linker via: /tmp/cc.sh -Wl,-v
linker stdout:

linker stderr:
241.9
configured to support archs: armv4t armv5 armv6 armv7 armv7f armv7k armv7s armv6m armv7m armv7em armv8 arm64 arm64v8 i386 x86_64 x86_64h
Library search paths:
	/opt/MacOSX10.8.sdk/usr/lib
	/opt/MacOSX10.8.sdk/usr/local/lib
Framework search paths:
	/opt/MacOSX10.8.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  "_main", referenced from:
      start in crt1.10.6.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)


../meson.build:25:0: ERROR: Unable to detect linker for compiler `/tmp/cc.sh -Wl,--version`
stdout: 
stderr: ld: unknown option: --version
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

The cross-build file is like this:

[binaries]
c = '/tmp/cc.sh'
cpp = '/tmp/cc.sh'
ld = 'x86_64-apple-darwin9-ld'
ar = 'x86_64-apple-darwin9-ar'
ranlib = 'x86_64-apple-darwin9-ranlib'
strip = 'x86_64-apple-darwin9-strip'

[host_machine]
system = 'darwin'
cpu_family = 'x86_64'
cpu = 'x86_64'
endian = 'little'

The x86_64-apple-darwin9-XXX tools are built from cctools-port project. And, cc.sh is simply a wrapper around clang:

#!/bin/sh

exec clang -target x86_64-apple-darwin9 -arch x86_64 -mlinker-version=341.9 -isysroot /opt/MacOSX10.8.sdk -B /opt/cctools-port/bin -mmacosx-version-min=10.6 "$@"

Is there a way around this?

Thanks.