Re: [PATCH] build/xenstore: Correct static link failure for xenstore

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>]

On 15/10/12 16:31, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 16:24 +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> There is support for building xenstore clients statically.  However,
>> recent changes to the makefiles have rendered the static build broken.
>>
>> tools/xenstore/Makefile sets LIBXENSTORE depending on whether
>> XENSTORE_STATIC_CLIENTS is specified, but will unconditionally try to
>> link against libxenstore.so by use of the LDLIBS_libxenstore variable.
>>
>> This patch doubles the logic already present to select the appropriate
>> library target.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
>>
>> --
>> This is a bit of a hack, but seems to be the only reliable way,
>> espcially when linking with the LDLIBS_libxenstore variable in
>> toos/misc.
> I think it would be cleaner to define LDLIBS_libxenstore_static in
> Rules.mk alongside the existing thing and make the appropriate selection
> in the xenstore Makefile. That keeps the fugliness next to where it is
> used.

But that then requires patching for *every* consumer of
LDLIBS_libxenstore, which is a substantially larger and more invasive.

~Andrew

>
>> diff -r 099589002239 -r 952b1ef29246 tools/Rules.mk
>> --- a/tools/Rules.mk
>> +++ b/tools/Rules.mk
>> @@ -28,7 +28,11 @@ LDLIBS_libxenguest = $(XEN_LIBXC)/libxen
>>  SHLIB_libxenguest  = -Wl,-rpath-link=L$(XEN_LIBXC)
>>  
>>  CFLAGS_libxenstore = -I$(XEN_XENSTORE) $(CFLAGS_xeninclude)
>> +ifneq ($(XENSTORE_STATIC_CLIENTS),y)
>>  LDLIBS_libxenstore = $(XEN_XENSTORE)/libxenstore.so
>> +else
>> +LDLIBS_libxenstore = $(XEN_XENSTORE)/libxenstore.a
>> +endif
>>  SHLIB_libxenstore  = -Wl,-rpath-link=$(XEN_XENSTORE)
>>  
>>  CFLAGS_libxenstat  = -I$(XEN_LIBXENSTAT)
>

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