Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] libcacard: add libcacard.la target

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 05/16/2011 07:37 PM, Alon Levy wrote:
> I've settled on libtool
> as the linker solution since it seems to be the de facto standard, please
> correct me on this point if I'm wrong. We are not using autoconf, so
> I've called it directly in it's various modes, compile, link and install.

I agree.  I don't dislike this particularly :) if at all.

> Legitemacy of the warning: basically libtool is concerned about linking in position
> dependant code. But the trace-dtrace.o contains no .rodata section and is not actually
> a problem for the linker, I've verfied the resulting library works fine with spicec (the
> spice client using it).

I'm not sure, however, that glibc would still keep the sharing of .text.

> I'd appreciate any suggestion of a replacement for libtool if it is not appropriate.
> Note that this building of a shared library is not something new - we've talked about
> this before in relation to libcacard inclusion inside qemu git repository.

Do you really need tracing besides as a dependency of qemu_malloc? 
Perhaps you can recompile qemu-malloc.o specially for libcacard, and 
force usage of the nop backend.

Paolo