Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Nov 2002 22:29:52 +0100 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [kbuild] Possibility to sanely link against off-directory .so |
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On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 07:52:30PM +0100, Petr Baudis wrote: > Hello, > > this patch (against 2.5.46) introduces two special variables which make it > actually possible to have .so as the only product of build in some directory > and to link something against .so being built in another directory. The > variable host-cshlib-extra makes it possible to explicitly mention shared > objects to be built and the variable $(<foo>-linkobjs) allows user to specify > additional objects to link <foo> against, while not creating any dependencies > of <foo> on the objects. > > The changes are minimal while dramatically extending possibilities for > messing with the shared objects and they should have no unwanted side-effects, > and it appears to actually work for me. Please apply.
There is only one user of shared libaries today, thats Kconfig. And Kconfig is the only user of C++ as well.
There is quite a lot of added complexity in Makefile.lib + Makefile.build only to support this. Being the one that introduced it, I would like to see it go away again. Rationale behind this is that the current added complexity has an penalty when compiling a kernel, and I would like to move the complexity to the only user.
Care to try that approach?
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