On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 10:32 PM, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4...@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:
This actually seems pretty easy to do.
I'm going to split this patch and the Makefile changes into a separate
series and send those so I don't end up spamming everyone with the
earlier patches in the series. Then after 2.10 I can combine them all
and send the full series.
Thanks,
Alistair
>
> # TODO bla bla explain bla
> test-util-obj-y = libqemuutil.a libqemustub.a libqemuutil.a
>
