On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 09:39:43AM +0900, Masao Uebayashi wrote:
> The reason of this is that config(1) have no idea of library at this
> moment.  Makefile.kern.inc has also a convention that all *.o files
> have to be built under the top of kernel build directory.  libkern &
> libcompat have speicalized make(1) rules, that work but look ugly.
> I'd consider to extend config(1) to support library...

Please can you keep some context in your emails.
The 'this' is the first line is a reference to something unknown.

Oh, and one historic reason for the kernel objects being in a .a
file was to allow builds on systems with short command line length
limits.

        David

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David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk

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