Re: [Xen-devel] why is blktap statically linking it's drivers?

[Julian Chesterfield <jac90@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4 Aug 2006, at 20:26, Keir Fraser wrote:

> On 4/8/06 7:19 pm, "Sean Dague" <japh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > It took me a bit to realize that the issue I was having with blktap
> > compiling in xen-unstable is that it is statically linking libcrypto 
> > and
> > libc into all of the executables in: xen-unstable/tools/blktap/drivers
> >
> > Is there a reason for this?  It means that every one of those 
> > executables
> > ends up at > 1 MB, which seems quite excessive.  It also means that 
> > you need
> > static-devel packages on some distros, which tend to not be installed 
> > by
> > default.
> I *think* the intention is to statically link to our own copy of 
> libaio, but
> the -static flag causes us to statically link against all libraries. 
> The
> correct thing might be to explicitly link in libaio.a and remove 
> -static,
> but Julian will know better than me.
Yep that's correct, we wanted to avoid libaio conflicts. I'll push an 
update to the Makefile today.
- Julian

>  -- Keir
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