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To: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBGw6RyYmVy?= <andreas.faerber@web.de>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>

On 11/29/2009 04:17 PM, Andreas F=C3=A4rber wrote:
>
> This problem is still around after Juan's Makefile reorganizations.
>
> Before, I had provided two alternative patches:
>
> * The first version wrote the list of libqemu_common.a's and=20
> $(HWLIB)'s object files into a text file from Makefile[.hw] that was=20
> later read in Makefile.target.
>
> * The second version was using dedicated Makefile[.hw] targets for=20
> printing the object files to stdout for use by Makefile.target,=20
> avoiding the need to write an intermediate file.
>
> Avi had preferred a variation of the first version for reduced=20
> complexity.
>
> Other ideas that crossed my mind were:
> * using GNU ld directly instead of gcc for linking (broken by -Wl and=20
> some other LDFLAGS)

Using ld directly may break link-time optimization when that arrives.

--=20
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick =
to panic.