O Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 12:19:38PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 29/04/2020 12:08, Bruce Richardson: > > Since all libraries are explicitly linked as part of a build, we no longer > > need to track ones that should be always included for linking against apps. > > I don't understand why telemetry was managed differently. > Because it was never directly called by applications - and so unneeded from the linkers viewpoint - but still needed to be linked in to allow apps to support emitting telemetry data. Therefore it was needed to add it explicitly because it was never in the required dependency list for each app.
This wasn't needed for make, since all libs were always linked into make builds. The previous patch in this set changes meson to behave that way too. /Bruce
