Re: [PATCH] libxlu: avoid linker warnings

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 04:05 -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Recent ld warns about libxenlight.so's dependency libraries not being
> available, which can be easily avoided by not just passing the raw
> library name on ld's command line.

> In the course of checking how things fit together (I originally
> suspected the warning to come from the linking of xl) I also noticed a
> stray L in SHLIB_libxenguest, which gets removed at once.

Looks like I (unwittingly) fixed this aspect in

http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-10/msg02256.html
too. I can easily rebase.

Since you have a pickier ld than me I wonder if you would mind trying my patch out on top of yours too?

> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>

> --- a/tools/Rules.mk
> +++ b/tools/Rules.mk
> @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ SHLIB_libxenctrl  = -Wl,-rpath-link=$(XE
>  
>  CFLAGS_libxenguest = -I$(XEN_LIBXC)/include $(CFLAGS_xeninclude)
>  LDLIBS_libxenguest = $(XEN_LIBXC)/libxenguest$(libextension)
> -SHLIB_libxenguest  = -Wl,-rpath-link=L$(XEN_LIBXC)
> +SHLIB_libxenguest  = -Wl,-rpath-link=$(XEN_LIBXC)
>  
>  CFLAGS_libxenstore = -I$(XEN_XENSTORE)/include $(CFLAGS_xeninclude)
>  LDLIBS_libxenstore = $(XEN_XENSTORE)/libxenstore$(libextension)
> --- a/tools/libxl/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/libxl/Makefile
> @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ LDFLAGS += $(PTHREAD_LDFLAGS)
>  LIBXL_LIBS += $(PTHREAD_LIBS)
>  LIBXL_LIBS += $(LIBXL_LIBS-y)
>  
> -LIBXLU_LIBS = libxenlight.so
> +LIBXLU_LIBS = $(LDLIBS_libxenlight)
>  
>  LIBXL_OBJS-y = osdeps.o libxl_paths.o libxl_bootloader.o flexarray.o
>  ifeq ($(LIBXL_BLKTAP),y)
> 
> 
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