Am Freitag, 20. März 2020, 17:41:18 CET schrieb Lucas De Marchi: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 7:40 AM Rolf Eike Beer <eb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > since commit b7016153ec87dba2b0f0d182cc8f1e3b12f4dfaf building static kmod > > is disabled. I would like to question that decision. > > > > My use case is as follows: I build a custom BSP and would like to provide > > statically linked host tools. That makes it easy to deploy them at any > > location, and that these tools do not pick up random shared libraries of > > the underlying Linux system when executed. Currently kmod is one of the > > few packages that are not able to build in that way. > > > > I understand that you may want to prevent other tools (e.g. sytemd was > > mentioned in that commit) to link against a static libkmod, and that is > > fine with me. What I would like to get is static kmod tools. For the BSP > > host tools case I don't mind if a libkmod does not exist at all, only the > > tools are of interest. > > > > What do you think? > > It's a build system limitation: > > ./configure -h| grep static > --enable-static[=PKGS] build static libraries [default=no] > > The --enable-static switch is about building static libraries, and as > a consequence linking the binaries statically. > We don't want libkmod to be built statically because its symbols will > conflict with other libraries > as you mentioned. Yes, for now I simply patch that check out there. > If we had a --enable-static-tools switch that made only the tools > static (default false), I think it would be acceptable. > > And since you are going to mess with the build system, if you want to > convert kmod to meson it would be very > appreciated :) If I change any build system the target is CMake. Eike -- Rolf Eike Beer, emlix GmbH, http://www.emlix.com Fon +49 551 30664-0, Fax +49 551 30664-11 Gothaer Platz 3, 37083 Göttingen, Germany Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen, Amtsgericht Göttingen HR B 3160 Geschäftsführung: Heike Jordan, Dr. Uwe Kracke – Ust-IdNr.: DE 205 198 055 emlix - smart embedded open source
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