From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44359) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QLyL0-0004tZ-VR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 May 2011 09:59:59 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QLyL0-0001G5-2H for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 May 2011 09:59:58 -0400 Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com ([74.125.82.53]:62857) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QLyKz-0001Fy-Sr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 May 2011 09:59:58 -0400 Received: by wwj40 with SMTP id 40so4545392wwj.10 for ; Mon, 16 May 2011 06:59:56 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <4DD12DD9.2040400@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 15:59:53 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4DD115FD.1040103@redhat.com> <1305552333-19351-1-git-send-email-alevy@redhat.com> <4DD12691.7080905@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <4DD12691.7080905@codemonkey.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] libcacard: add libcacard.la target List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Alon Levy , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 05/16/2011 03:28 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> >> >> *** Warning: Linking the shared library libcacard.la against the >> non-libtool >> *** objects ../trace-dtrace.o is not portable! > > I don't think slipping in libtool like this is such a good idea. I disagree but, the warning is indeed legitimate, so NACK > Isn't la just a static archive compiled with -fPIC? No, .la is a text file pointing (most importantly) to the static library, the shared library, and the dependencies of the static library. Alon, do you need this to comply with some packaging guidelines forbidding static libraries? Paolo