Re: Undefined symbols in 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 10:19:23AM -0500, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> > And this can break as soon as the "unused" object files contains 
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL's.
> > 
> > Is it really worth it doing it in this non-intuitive way?
> 
> I don't think it non-intuitive, it's how libraries work. However, as you 
> say, it is broken for files containing EXPORT_SYMBOL.
> 
> The obvious fix for this case is the one that akpm mentioned way earlier 
> in this thread, move parser.o into $(obj-y).
> 
> It should be rather easy to have the kernel build system warn you when you 
> compile library objects exporting symbols.

This warning sounds like a good plan (but it won't let many objects stay 
inside lib-y).

> --Kai

cu
Adrian

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