[Buildroot] [PATCH 3 of 4 RFC] manual: add section about depending on toolchain options

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 18/09/13 20:18, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Gustavo Zacarias,
>
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:05:23 -0300, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:
>> On 09/18/2013 02:59 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>>
>>> I think it's a bit more than just renaming this symbol. I can try to
>>> cook something.
>>
>> Add the relevant legacy entry, adjusting help / manuals.
>> Is there something else i'm missing?
>
> Yes, we probably want to have the choice between building static only,
> static + shared, or shared only, default to shared only. Currently,
> when !BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB, we build both the shared and static
> variants, which takes time because it requires building everything
> twice, once with -fPIC, once without.

  I don't think the static + shared option really makes sense, does it? 
The only use case I can think of is when you want a proprietary 
executable to link statically in order to speed up start time.

  Regards,
  Arnout


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