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Date:      Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:33:35 +0100
From:      Rui Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r211561 - head/cddl/lib/drti
Message-ID:  <F9B84E88-A3A7-4B37-A473-0860475FAE22@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100821142340.GU2396@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
References:  <201008211348.o7LDm55c070981@svn.freebsd.org> <20100821135908.GT2396@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <64B55A11-14C3-4297-93F6-40BA74854F98@FreeBSD.org> <20100821142340.GU2396@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>

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On 21 Aug 2010, at 15:23, Kostik Belousov wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 03:16:49PM +0100, Rui Paulo wrote:
>>=20
>> On 21 Aug 2010, at 14:59, Kostik Belousov wrote:
>>=20
>>> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 01:48:05PM +0000, Rui Paulo wrote:
>>>> Author: rpaulo
>>>> Date: Sat Aug 21 13:48:04 2010
>>>> New Revision: 211561
>>>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/211561
>>>>=20
>>>> Log:
>>>> Link drti.o with a PIC version of libelf. This is needed because
>>>> drti.o depends on libelf and this avoids linking every other drti.o
>>>> program (namely programs with USDT probes) with libelf.
>>> What is wrong with having libelf as dependency of the resulting
>>> binary ?
>>=20
>> The resulting binary can be a library. If I add drti.o to the libthr
>> library, every other program will break because it can't find libelf
>> symbols. The only way to fix it would be to rebuild every program =
that
>> depends on libthr and I don't want that to happen.
>=20
> I do not understand this. If drti.o is added to a library, library =
should
> also record a dependency on libelf, i.e. be linked with it. Since you
> already modifying link command to add drti.o, what is the problem to
> add -lelf ?

I wanted the same steps to be done in FreeBSD as in Solaris. I.e., in =
Solaris you don't need to link with -lelf your program after you added =
DTrace probes to it.
I believe this is a good tradeoff.

Regards,
--
Rui Paulo





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