Re: [PATCH] [kbuild] Possibility to sanely link against off-directory

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Peter Samuelson wrote:

> Even if this is true - I'll grant you that it may be - let the vendor
> package /usr/bin/qconf as a shell script that links /usr/lib/qconf.o
> with -lqt and $(LINUX)/scripts/kconfig/libkconfig.a .  It's a little
> unorthodox, but it removes the hackery of figuring out how HOSTCC is
> supposed to build a shared library and whether any magic is needed at
> runtime.  Removes the need for the horrible stuff libtool was invented
> for, in other words.
> 
> Remember, the whole point of HOSTCC is to support a build environment
> different from the compile target - arbitrarily different, even.

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.

bye, Roman