Re: [PATCH 4/8] meson: drop the .fa library suffix

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 2/22/22 20:40, marcandre.lureau@redhat.com wrote:
> The .fa suffix was a temporary hack introduced in commit
> 1f0a1d8a51 ("build-sys hack: link with whole .fa archives") when the
> build system was mixed between meson & makefiles. It is no longer
> needed.

It is still needed to separate internal and system archives, otherwise 
the oss-fuzz build fails.  Meson adds a --start-group/--end-group pair 
around all libraries, and the fork-fuzz.ld linker script should be 
outside it.  If the libraries are named .a, the --start-group is placed 
much earlier.

This is of course a very ugly workaround; Meson should just use the 
objects instead of the archives when link_whole is used with an internal 
convenience archive.

Paolo