On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:31:00AM +1030, Alan Modra wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:48:01PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > Another possibility is to use thin archives to package up the objects. > > > Thin archives are like normal archives except they just contain paths > > > to the objects, not the object contents. Paths are flattened when > > > adding one thin archive to another. I think Stephen may have tried > > > that idea too. > > I just coded this in a similar simple fashion. > > It broke building vdso - needs to look into that and will get back when I may > > understand why my link suddenly broke. > > Missing --whole-archive? No - at least something else to begin with. A special liker script is used when building the vdsp files for x86 - and the linker script is ignored as such when embedded in a .o file with ar it seems. This is not a big suprise. The makefile magic used for the vdso part of the kernel needs a bit more coffee than what is good for me for now... Will look at it again later. Thanks for the feedback. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
