Re: kbuild support to build one module with multiple separate components?

[Song Wang]

Hi, Ralf

Thanks for the reply.

I looked through kbuild documentation. This is
a variable called lib-y to build .a, for instance,

lib-y := a.o, b.o

Then lib.a will be produced. However, in this case,
you can build a lib.a for each sub module, but
they will have the same name, I don't know how you
can link them together.

I think the current kbuild system does simplify 
the Makefiles in 2.6, but it also reduces the
flexibility.

-Song

--- Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 04:00:50PM -0700, Song Wang
> wrote:
> 
> > This is wrong, because kbuild will treat A as
> > independent module. All I want is to treat
> > A as component of the only module mymodule.o. It
> > should be linked to mymodule.o
> > 
> > Any idea on how to write a kbuild Makefile to
> > support such kind of single module produced
> > by linking multiple components and each component
> > is located in separate directory? Thanks.
> 
> That's a limitation in the current kbuild system. 
> You either have to put
> all files into a single directory or if you don't
> want that split your
> module into several independant modules.  What I
> haven't tried is using
> .a libraries but they're generally deprecated in
> kbuild.
> 
>   Ralf
> 



		
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