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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v11 0/8] Shared Library Module Support
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Il 04/10/2013 16:48, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto:
>> >
>>> >> v11:
>>> >>     [04] Link DSO with  -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,-rpath,'$$ORIGIN' (Richard)
>> >
>> > I don't fully understand the portability issue with this flag yet, is this OK
>> > to keep or should be dropped? Any opinions?
> Ping^2

This was only meant as an idea about how to use shared libraries for
common parts of e.g. SPICE.  It's not yet necessary.

Paolo

> This series will be useful for enabling block drivers with library
> dependencies, so I hope we can merge it soon.  Today, package
> maintainers must make a choice about the "right" set of features to
> include in their QEMU build.  With modules they can simply build
> everything and ship individual packages.