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To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [kbuild] Possibility to sanely link against off-directory .so
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[Roman Zippel]
> If your build environment doesn't support shared libraries, you can
> easily generate a static library instead and link against it
> yourself, like you described, but it's no reason to deny the
> convenience to working environments.

Yeah, but until I do, I can't even run 'make oldconfig'.

(This isn't about me - I will probably always build on Linux, with gcc
- it's about weird environments like cross-compiling from Solaris,
which I'm told was often done in the earlier stages of SPARC Linux.)

I suggest that *at least* the built-in targets should link libkconfig
statically - either via libkconfig.a or just the list of .o files.

Peter
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