Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] Makefile.target: prepend $libs_softmmu to $LIBS

[Peter Maydell]

On 10 March 2015 at 00:23, Wei Liu <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:11:44AM +0900, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> Maybe we should actively stop configure allowing a static build
>> of the softmmu and tools binaries, rather than having configs which
>> nobody really tests? Or is there a genuine use case for them?

> I'm trying to build QEMU as Xen's stubdom. That would certainly require
> static linking. This is a usecase we care. An we can also test this
> configuration after we make everything work and put things into our own
> test system.

Does that use a custom libc or something? glibc certainly does
not like static linking and warns all over the place about
things in functions in glib which we use in the softmmu case.

-- PMM