A few build system questions

Eric McCorkle eric at metricspace.net
Thu Aug 2 16:18:09 UTC 2018


On 08/02/2018 11:33, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 11:17:06AM -0400, Eric McCorkle wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a few questions about how to accomplish some things with the
>> build system.
>>
>> First, I want to create some libraries that exist only as static
>> archives, meaning no shared object (ex. libsomething.a, but no
>> libsomething.so)
> 
> If it's something for use by only the base system PRIVATELIB= will
> do it (and change the name to libprivatesomethi.a).  If you want to be
> broadly available outside the base system, NO_SHARED= should do it IIRC.

If loader and kernel are able to use private libraries, then that is
probably better, actually.

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