Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] authz: optimize linking of objects for authorization services

[Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>]

On 5/21/19 5:32 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> The core authorization API is a dependancy of the crypto code for the
> TLS servers. The TLS server code is pulled into anything which links
> to the crypto objects, which is every QEMU tool. This in turns means
> that every tool ended up linking to the authz code, which in turn
> pulls in the PAM library dep.
> 
> This splits the authz code so that everything links to the base object
> which defines the API. Only the system emulators and qemu-nbd link to
> the object classes providing the implementations of the authz object
> API. This has the effect of removing the PAM library dep from qemu-img,
> qemu-io and other helper tools.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> ---
>  Makefile            | 5 +++--
>  Makefile.objs       | 1 +
>  Makefile.target     | 3 ++-
>  authz/Makefile.objs | 9 +++++----
>  4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

No changes to tests/?  Surely that means some tests no longer link?


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