Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PATCH 2.3.28: drivers/net/Makefile update | Date | Mon, 15 Nov 1999 17:23:06 +0000 | From | David Woodhouse <> |
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jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com said: > The whole idea behind *.a is to be able to remove dead objects, which > is totally opposite of --whole-archive.
> The problem lies in that drivers which use module_init() can be valid, > linkable objects, with no external references at all. There needs to > be some way to tell the linker to include all objects which have > module_init() in them.
But the Makefiles are not supposed to even compile the objects which aren't required, so what's wrong with --whole-archive?
If there's an object in the archive that isn't used, then it should be considered a bug in the Makefiles, surely?
-- dwmw2
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