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Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 20:37:24 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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To: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
Cc: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

malc wrote:
> On Sat, 9 May 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>> And I've confirmed this works.
>>     
>
> -Wl,--whole-archive means QEMU can only be built with GNU ld.
>   

Also, we don't have to use static libraries.  It really doesn't give us 
anything so it's pretty simple to swizzle the Makefiles if we have to.  
If we really want to use a library, we should make it a dynamic library 
and install that by default.  That way we save on some installation size.

So there's a lot of simple ways to eliminate --whole-archive if we have to.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori