-----Original Message-----
> From: <owner-src-committ...@freebsd.org> on behalf of Ed Maste
> <ema...@freebsd.org>
> Date: 2016-12-30, Friday at 07:39
> To: Ravi Pokala <rpok...@mac.com>
> Cc: Alexander Kabaev <k...@freebsd.org>, "src-committ...@freebsd.org"
> <src-committ...@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org"
> <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-h...@freebsd.org"
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> Subject: Re: svn commit: r310789 - head/lib/libpam/static_libpam
>
> On 29 December 2016 at 19:59, Ravi Pokala <rpok...@mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm a little confused - the original version had to have had a compile-only
>> step to generate the object first, before running the link-only operation
>> against the object. The new code replaces the link-only operation with a
>> compile+link operation. Shouldn't the pre-existing compile-only operation be
>> removed, since the new compile+link operation supersedes it?
>
> Hi Ravi,
>
> This change:
>
>>> - ${LD} -o ${.TARGET} -r --whole-archive ${.ALLSRC}
>>> + ${CC} -nostdlib ${CFLAGS} -o ${.TARGET} -r -Wl,--whole-archive
>>> ${.ALLSRC}
>
> is not actually compiling, it's just invoking the compiler driver to
> in turn invoke the linker. The input in ${.ALLSRC} is still a
> collection of object files.
Ahhh! My knowledge of `make' is terrible, so I thought ${.ALLSRC} must have
been referring to actual source files in some non-obvious way. I also thought
some special flag would be needed when passing an object file to the compiler,
rather than a source file. Combine those two, and there was my problem.
Thanks for clarifying!
-Ravi (rpokala@)
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