CMake Proposal

[simo]

On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 09:24 +0100, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> Using static libraries (.a files) is bad as that would allow
> the linker to optimize out symbols which aren't used by the binary,
> but need to be there for loaded .so modules at runtime.

It strikes me that there is no linker flag to tell it not to drop any
symbol. I wonder if adding fake calls for platfroms that really have
this problem to avoid dropping symbols wouldn't be a better solution,
yes it would be hackish, but the merged objects are worse imo.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <simo at samba.org>
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. <simo at redhat.com>