From: Sonic Zhang Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 21:10:23 +0000 (+0100) Subject: arch: BINFMT_FLAT_SHARED is not really shared for buildroot purposes X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1b171af3b3b4e0f0537173c7b9703c729915a6ab;p=buildroot.git arch: BINFMT_FLAT_SHARED is not really shared for buildroot purposes Although BINFMT_FLAT_SHARED is indeed a shared library format, it does not support dynamic library loading with dlopen(). So for buildroot purposes, BR2_STATIC_LIBS shouldn't be selected. As it happens, the compiler options that are added for BINFMT_FLAT_SHARED also make the compiler ignore the -static option, so we can simply force BR2_STATIC_LIBS and things work out perfectly. Therefore, remove the select of BR2_BINFMT_SUPPORTS_SHARED from BINFMT_FLAT_SHARED, which in turn makes sure that BR2_STATIC_LIBS is selected. [Arnout: rewrite commit message, add explanatory comment] Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni --- diff --git a/arch/Config.in b/arch/Config.in index 16ad8be56b..59bf84a918 100644 --- a/arch/Config.in +++ b/arch/Config.in @@ -295,7 +295,12 @@ config BR2_BINFMT_FLAT_SEP_DATA config BR2_BINFMT_FLAT_SHARED bool "Shared binary" - select BR2_BINFMT_SUPPORTS_SHARED + # Even though this really generates shared binaries, there is no libdl + # and dlopen() cannot be used. So packages that require shared + # libraries cannot be built. Therefore, we don't select + # BR2_BINFMT_SUPPORTS_SHARED and therefore force BR2_STATIC_LIBS. + # Although this adds -static to the compilation, that's not a problem + # because the -mid-shared-library option overrides it. help Allow to load and link indiviual FLAT binaries at run time.