Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Create libqemutrace.a for all trace.o

[Xu, Anthony]

> >>> ./trace.o, ./qapi/trace.o and ./util/trace.o are added into
> >>> libqemuutil.a  to avoid recursive dependencies between
> >>> libqemuutil.a and libqemutrace.a.
> >> Why would libqemutrace.a depend on libqemuutil.a?
> > Each trace.c calls trace_event_register_group to register events,
> > trace_event_register_group is defined in trace/control.c , which
> > is linked into libqemuutil.a.
> 
> Ah:
> 
> util-obj-$(CONFIG_TRACE_SIMPLE) += simple.o
> util-obj-$(CONFIG_TRACE_FTRACE) += ftrace.o
> util-obj-y += control.o
> util-obj-y += qmp.o
> 
> With the introduction of libqemutrace.a, I believe these should be moved
> into libqemutrace.a.

Agreed,
But it doesn't solve infinite recursion issue. register_module_init is 
needed by libqemutrace.a, which is defined util/module.c.

it is hard to remove libqemutrace.a dependency on libqemuutil.a.

Removing libqemuutil.a dependency on libqemutrace.a is feasible.
Just like what I did in this patch, include all util related trace.o 
to libqemuutila.

The other simple way is to include all trace.o into libqemuutil.a

What's your opinion?

Thanks
Anthony