Re: [Qemu-devel] Mac: your linker does not support --whole-archive or -z

[C.W. Betts]

On May 19, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:

C.W. Betts wrote:

I recently got my git tree up and running again, but I encountered this error when trying to configure it:

Error: your linker does not support --whole-archive or -z.

Please report to address@hidden

I'm running Mac OS X 10.5.7

Does this patch help?  Make sure to do configure and a full build.

for some odd reason, it needs two -all_load in order to work.  Like so:

diff --git a/configure b/configure

index 4111e7c..533fa35 100755

--- a/configure

+++ b/configure

@@ -1708,6 +1708,11 @@ elif check_linker_flags -z,allextract -z,defaultextract ; then

    # Solaris ld

    echo "ARLIBS_BEGIN=-Wl,-z,allextract" >> $config_mak

    echo "ARLIBS_END=-Wl,-z,defaultextract" >> $config_mak

+elif check_linker_flags -all_load -all_load ; then

+    echo "ARLIBS_BEGIN=-all_load" >> $config_mak

+    # This is technically obsolete but it seems like it would be necessary

+#    echo "ARLIBS_END=-noall_load" >> $config_mak

+    echo "ARLIBS_END=" >> $config_mak

else

    echo "Error: your linker does not support --whole-archive or -z."

    echo "Please report to address@hidden"

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 4111e7c..533fa35 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1708,6 +1708,11 @@ elif check_linker_flags -z,allextract -z,defaultextract ; then
    # Solaris ld
    echo "ARLIBS_BEGIN=-Wl,-z,allextract" >> $config_mak
    echo "ARLIBS_END=-Wl,-z,defaultextract" >> $config_mak
+elif check_linker_flags -all_load ; then
+    echo "ARLIBS_BEGIN=-all_load" >> $config_mak
+    # This is technically obsolete but it seems like it would be necessary
+#    echo "ARLIBS_END=-noall_load" >> $config_mak
+    echo "ARLIBS_END=" >> $config_mak
else
    echo "Error: your linker does not support --whole-archive or -z."
    echo "Please report to address@hidden"