From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
mmarek@suse.cz, Cary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC] kbuild: drop use of "ld -r" for intermediate links of vmlinux
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 18:02:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140220170209.GA5103@ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140219010100.GA3386@bubble.grove.modra.org>
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:31:00AM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:48:01PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > > Another possibility is to use thin archives to package up the objects.
> > > Thin archives are like normal archives except they just contain paths
> > > to the objects, not the object contents. Paths are flattened when
> > > adding one thin archive to another. I think Stephen may have tried
> > > that idea too.
> > I just coded this in a similar simple fashion.
> > It broke building vdso - needs to look into that and will get back when I may
> > understand why my link suddenly broke.
>
> Missing --whole-archive?
No - at least something else to begin with.
A special liker script is used when building the vdsp files for x86 - and the
linker script is ignored as such when embedded in a .o file with ar it seems.
This is not a big suprise.
The makefile magic used for the vdso part of the kernel needs a bit more coffee
than what is good for me for now...
Will look at it again later.
Thanks for the feedback.
Sam
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-20 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-16 20:37 [RFC] kbuild: drop use of "ld -r" for intermediate links of vmlinux Sam Ravnborg
2014-02-18 14:58 ` Alan Modra
2014-02-18 21:48 ` Sam Ravnborg
2014-02-19 1:01 ` Alan Modra
2014-02-20 17:02 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
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