On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 16:31:17 +0200 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com> wrote:
> The physically linked-together combined library has been an increasing > source of problems, as was predicted when library and symbol versioning > was introduced. Replace the complex and fragile construction with a > simple linker script which achieves the same without all the problems, > remove the related kludges from eg mlx drivers. > > Since creating the linker script is practically zero cost, remove the > config option and just create it always. > > Based on a patch by Sergio Gonzales Monroy, linker script approach > initially suggested by Neil Horman. > > Suggested-by: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy at intel.com> > Suggested-by: Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com> > Signed-off-by: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com> But it now means distros have to ship 20 libraries which seems like a step back.
