Re: [RFC] kbuild: drop use of "ld -r" for intermediate links of vmlinux

From: Alan Modra
Date: Tue Feb 18 2014 - 20:01:16 EST


On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:48:01PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > Another possibility is to use thin archives to package up the objects.
> > Thin archives are like normal archives except they just contain paths
> > to the objects, not the object contents. Paths are flattened when
> > adding one thin archive to another. I think Stephen may have tried
> > that idea too.
> I just coded this in a similar simple fashion.
> It broke building vdso - needs to look into that and will get back when I may
> understand why my link suddenly broke.

Missing --whole-archive?

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
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