Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263452AbTFDP2x (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2003 11:28:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263458AbTFDP2x (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2003 11:28:53 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:47621 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263452AbTFDP2w (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2003 11:28:52 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 08:41:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jeff Garzik cc: David Woodhouse , Stewart Smith , , Stewart Smith Subject: Re: [PATCH] fixed: CRC32=y && 8193TOO=m unresolved symbols In-Reply-To: <20030604153224.GF19929@gtf.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 691 Lines: 20 On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Any opinions on moving it out of lib/lib.a? > > We have our own conditional linking system, essentially, so that's what > I would prefer. That makes sense. lib/lib.a wasn't ever _that_ sensible, since we only really include object files in it that we know should be linked in. The linker really does know less than the build system, and in this case that seems to be causing a real bug. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/