On 2 October 2017 at 12:17, Daniel P. Berrange <[email protected]> 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? thanks -- PMM
