Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Makefile: don't use LINKPROG for tests/migration/stress

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 12:19:54PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 2 October 2017 at 12:17, Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 12:14:39PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >> Why does this executable need to define its own link rule anyway?
> >> Ideally it should just use the standard rules.mak LINK function
> >> like everything else. If it does need to do something weird
> >> it should have a comment saying why it's weird...
> >
> > Primarily because we're static linking this binary so that it can be put
> > into an initrd without needing any extra files added. It doesn't use any
> > of the 3rd party libraries the rest of QEMU uses - ie no glib2 in 
> > particular.
> 
> Oh, are we committing our usual error of trying to build guest
> binaries with the host toolchain?

That's not an error here - this test suite is only intended to run with
matching host/guest arch, and boots with the host kernel + custom initrd
containing only this binary.

Regards,
Daniel
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