On Thursday 2018-06-28 22:43, Florian Westphal wrote: >Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> Prepare for autoconf-based substitution of macros in the file. > >It breaks make install. > >Not a big deal, after pulling wholse series make seems to create >a static build by default, make install DESTDIR=/tmp/foo results >in all the ebt_foo.so files being omitted, instead they're part of >libebt.so. Is that intentional? > >Whats the rationale? I would assume that the reason they were all separate .so files before is because "_init" can only appear once per .so file and the original author did not know about ((constructor)) back then. One can have multiple __attribute__((constructor)) per executable, and since all of ebtables is always loaded into memory, there was no more reason to spread the code into many many .so files (disk seeks). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
