On 2/22/22 20:40, marcandre.lur...@redhat.com wrote:
The .fa suffix was a temporary hack introduced in commit 1f0a1d8a51 ("build-sys hack: link with whole .fa archives") when the build system was mixed between meson & makefiles. It is no longer needed.
It is still needed to separate internal and system archives, otherwise the oss-fuzz build fails. Meson adds a --start-group/--end-group pair around all libraries, and the fork-fuzz.ld linker script should be outside it. If the libraries are named .a, the --start-group is placed much earlier.
This is of course a very ugly workaround; Meson should just use the objects instead of the archives when link_whole is used with an internal convenience archive.
Paolo