Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rules.mak: Force CFLAGS for all objects in DSO

[Fam Zheng]

On Wed, 05/06 16:07, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 06/05/2015 15:46, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > Because of the trick of process-archive-undefs, all .mo objects, even
> > with --enable-modules, are dependencies of executables.
> > 
> > This breaks CFLAGS propogation because the compiling of module object
> > will happen too early before building for DSO.
> > 
> > With GCC 5, the linking would fail because .o doesn't have -fPIC. Also,
> > BUILD_DSO will be missed. (module-common.o will have it, so the stamp
> > symbol was still liked in .so).
> > 
> > Fix the problem by forcing the CFLAGS during unnest-vars.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Alexander Graf <address@hidden>
> > Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  rules.mak | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/rules.mak b/rules.mak
> > index 3a05627..6c0caf3 100644
> > --- a/rules.mak
> > +++ b/rules.mak
> > @@ -102,7 +102,6 @@ endif
> >  %.o: %.dtrace
> >     $(call quiet-command,dtrace -o $@ -G -s $<, "  GEN   $(TARGET_DIR)$@")
> >  
> > -%$(DSOSUF): CFLAGS += -fPIC -DBUILD_DSO
> >  %$(DSOSUF): LDFLAGS += $(LDFLAGS_SHARED)
> >  %$(DSOSUF): %.mo
> >     $(call LINK,$^)
> > @@ -353,6 +352,7 @@ define unnest-vars
> >               $(foreach o,$($v),
> >                     $(eval $o: $($o-objs)))
> >               $(eval $(patsubst %-m,%-y,$v) += $($v))
> > +             $(eval $($v:%.mo=%$(DSOSUF)) $($v) $(foreach 
> > o,$($v),$($o-objs)) .PHONY: CFLAGS += -fPIC -DBUILD_DSO)
                                ^               ^                ^              
     ^
                                |               |                |              
     |
                                |               |                |              
     `- In case all others are empty.
                                |               |                |
                                |               |                `- Expansion 
of all %.mo-objs so it's a %.o list.
                                |               |                   For 
$v=block-obj-m, this will contain curl.o, iscsi.o, ...
                                |               |
                                |               `- %.mo list
                                |                  For $v=block-obj-m, this 
will contain curl.mo, iscsi.mo, ...
                                |
                                `- %.so list
                                   For $v=block-obj-m, this will contain 
curl.so, iscsi.so, ...
> 
> Can you explain the various parts to the left of the colon?

Context:

 - The line is inside "$(if $(CONFIG_MODULES),...)"
 - $v is one of "block-job-m common-obj-m ..."
 - So, $($v) is the module object list "foo.mo bar.mo ..."

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Fam