THIN_ARCHIVES builds archives for built-in.o targets, have it build multi-y targets as archives as well. This saves another ~15% of the size of intermediate artifacts in the build tree. After this patch, the linker is only used in final link, and special cases like vdsos. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/Makefile.build | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build index 7675d11..41d2901 100644 --- a/scripts/Makefile.build +++ b/scripts/Makefile.build @@ -517,11 +517,18 @@ $($(subst $(obj)/,,$(@:.o=-objs))) \ $($(subst $(obj)/,,$(@:.o=-y))) \ $($(subst $(obj)/,,$(@:.o=-m)))), $^) -quiet_cmd_link_multi-y = LD $@ -cmd_link_multi-y = $(LD) $(ld_flags) -r -o $@ $(link_multi_deps) $(cmd_secanalysis) +cmd_link_multi-link = $(LD) $(ld_flags) -r -o $@ $(link_multi_deps) $(cmd_secanalysis) + +ifdef CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES + quiet_cmd_link_multi-y = AR $@ + cmd_link_multi-y = rm -f $@; $(AR) rcST$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS) $@ $(link_multi_deps) +else + quiet_cmd_link_multi-y = LD $@ + cmd_link_multi-y = $(cmd_link_multi-link) +endif quiet_cmd_link_multi-m = LD [M] $@ -cmd_link_multi-m = $(cmd_link_multi-y) +cmd_link_multi-m = $(cmd_link_multi-link) $(multi-used-y): FORCE $(call if_changed,link_multi-y) -- 2.10.2 -- 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
