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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 4/6] Makefile: introduce common-obj-m
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Cc: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>, Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>

Il 05/09/2013 23:45, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
> On 5 September 2013 20:41, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Libtool used to be really bad, but most performance problems have been
>> solved.
> 
> How about the "it silently creates things in dot-directories,
> recompiles things at random times when it really shouldn't,
> and is an enormous insane shell script" problems? The positives
> would have to be really really strong before we let libtool
> into the codebase...

How about "we'd break compilation on your favorite OS"? :) Darwin ld
doesn't support --whole-archive, it needs a different incantation.
Relatively recent Solaris now has it, but Apple still holds the bastions.

Paolo