Re: [PATCH] meson: Propagate gnutls dependency

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il gio 7 gen 2021, 20:36 Roman Bolshakov <r.bolshakov@yadro.com> ha scritto:

> No I think that Meson should simply explode link_whole libraries to their
> constituent objects.  This way duplicates are avoided.
>

Ok. I've looked through related changes in meson and it flattens object
files implicitly for link_with/link_whole parameters of static_library:

  https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/6030/files

But qemu adds dependencies to source set and populates dependencies
parameter of static_library and declare_dependency and we get duplicate
symbols:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-01/msg00411.html

Perhaps it's a bug then.

No, the same deduplication is not done for executables, because executables use libraries directly and not their object files.

Paolo

Regards,
Roman