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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: "Héctor Orón Martínez" <hector.oron@gmail.com>
Cc: Devicetree Compiler <devicetree-compiler@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libfdt: pass sources as keyword argument to library()
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 21:21:25 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ap_vr-qTfbJsuF10@gractus.seuss> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAODfWeHQcjGn0CtweT4Q9Em6WC9cTmvfxhuQCgae4gdu5W9hSA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Sep 08, 2026 at 12:07:27PM +0200, Héctor Orón Martínez wrote:
> Meson expects the source list for library() to be passed either as
> positional arguments after the target name or via the 'sources:'
> keyword. Using the implicit positional form can lead to malformed
> linker commands on some toolchains, with spurious arguments such as
> 'libfdt' and '.' being treated as input files.
> 
> Explicitly pass the source list via 'sources: sources' and declare
> the ABI version with 'soversion: '1'' to match the installed
> libfdt.so.1 soname.
> 
> This fixes build failures where the linker reported:
>   cannot find libfdt: file format not recognized
>   cannot find .: file format not recognized
> 
> Signed-off-by: Héctor Orón Martínez <hector.oron@gmail.com>

Applied, thanks.

> 
> ---
>  libfdt/meson.build | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/libfdt/meson.build b/libfdt/meson.build
> index 68d4c1d..6c41f9f 100644
> --- a/libfdt/meson.build
> +++ b/libfdt/meson.build
> @@ -27,8 +27,10 @@ endif
> 
>  link_args += version_script
>  libfdt = library(
> -  'fdt', sources,
> +  'fdt',
> +  sources: sources,
>    version: meson.project_version(),
> +  soversion: '1',
>    link_args: link_args,
>    link_depends: 'version.lds',
>    install: get_option('default_library') != 'static' or not wheel_only,
> -- 
> 2.55.0
> 

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2026-09-08 10:07 [PATCH] libfdt: pass sources as keyword argument to library() Héctor Orón Martínez
2026-09-08 11:21 ` David Gibson [this message]

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