Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/4] per-object libraries

[Michael Tokarev]

01.07.2013 14:08, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 30/06/2013 17:23, Michael Tokarev ha scritto:
>>> Perhaps we can instead use something like
>>>>
>>>> common.o: $(patsubst %,../%, $(common-obj-y))
>>>>    $(LD) -r -o $@ $^
>>>>
>>>> and then link common.o into the QEMU target.  Libtool can also be used
>>>> to abstract "ld -r".  Making libtool mandatory wouldn't be a problem IMO
>>>> (we'd need it anyway for modules) as long as you do not need libtool to
>>>> start QEMU or gdb from the build directory.
>> I think this will mean that whole common.o will have to be linked
>> into each executable which uses it, even if some executables are
>> only using just one function from whole lot of .o files.
> 
> This would be a different common.o for each directory.

Like util/common.o which requires -lrt and -lutil even if a given
app does not use openpty() or timer_create() ?

Thanks,

/mjt