[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3 v3] Change search path for libraries for x86_64 linker script

[Juan Quintela]

Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>> As requested for Anthony, we use as search path the output of:
>>
>> ld --verbose -v | grep SEARCH_PATH
>>
>> Anthony suggestion was to use a INCLUDE in the linker script, but it got
>> complicated because we have a relative path, and we want to get it working
>> with VPATH ....
>>
>> Then I decided to use a second linker script for the search path instead of
>> one INCLUDE.
>
> I don't understand one thing.  Is this patch now using the linker
> script for all architectures?  If so, it should be enough to call it
> LDFLAGS_USER and add LDFLAGS+=$(USER_LDFLAGS) where the configuration
> of linker scripts used to be done in the Makefile--or not?

It is using the linker scripts for everything that was using it before,
not a single more, neither a single less.

Just a bit of DRY, putting the commond code in a single place.


> BTW, maybe now the -Wl,-shared trick for self-virtualization can be
> replaced with -fpie (position independent executable)?

That is far away of my knowledge.  That is clearly not my call.

Later, Juan.