Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 5/5] Convert single line fprintf() to warn_report()

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> writes:

> On 08/17/2017 02:55 PM, Alistair Francis wrote:
>>>> On 15/08/2017 09:30, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>>>> The stupid fix is to repeat libraries until the link succeeds:
>>>>>
>>>>>      test-util-obj-y = libqemuutil.a libqemustub.a libqemuutil.a
>>>>>
> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>> Sticking '-Wp,-(' and '-Wp,-)' into the command line I get from make V=1
>>>>> doesn't work for me, though.
>>>>>
>>>>> The smart solution is not to have .a reference each other.
>>>>
>>>> Nah, I think we should teach those new kids on the block about -lX11
>>>> instead. :)
>>
>> This sounds scary...
>>
>>>>
>>>>> Paolo, what do you think?
>>>>
>>>> Another possibility is to just merge the two static libraries into one.
>>>
>>> Sounds good to me!
>>
>> I feel like I have opened a can of worms.
>
> you are good at it! IIRC it all started with a 1-line change in
> tcp_chr_wait_connected() more than 2 months ago :)
>
>>
>> I can try and combine libqemustub.a into libqemuutil.a is that the
>> solution? I just want to make sure before I start this.
>
> IMHO your series is OK like this, add a "TODO remove once
> libqemuutil.a circular dep is resolved" comment in the Makefile is
> enough, and let this issue for another time.

I disagree.

If merging the two .a is beyond your reach (I hope it isn't), then the
spot to mess up is this one:

    # TODO bla bla explain bla
    test-util-obj-y = libqemuutil.a libqemustub.a libqemuutil.a