On 11 March 2013 01:59, Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwa...@xilinx.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> > wrote: >> Oh, and I forgot -- don't try to build system emulators with --static: >> it's only really meant for the linux-user targets. Do specify > > Works for us quite nicely. Any known issues here or reasons why system > emulators shouldn't be built static?
System emulation uses a lot more of glib and also various glibc functions that will do dynamic loading anyhow (eg NSS functions). [You'll note that at the linking stage there are warnings about this.] I trust linux-user's code to be minimal enough that it doesn't do anything bad or that won't work, and it's a well used and tested config to use linux-user static. System mode touches much more of glib/glibc and also links against more external library code; also compiling it static is less common and less useful. Basically my impression is that it's not a "supported" config (to the extent that as upstream we support anything ;-)), so I prefer to recommend against using it, especially when it's unclear that somebody actually needs it at all. -- PMM
