Link errors with an install using quick-start guide

Sebastian Huber sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
Thu Jul 25 19:22:02 UTC 2019


----- Am 25. Jul 2019 um 21:19 schrieb joel joel at rtems.org:

> On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 2:13 PM Sebastian Huber <
> sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:
> 
>> ----- Am 25. Jul 2019 um 20:59 schrieb joel joel at rtems.org:
>>
>> > Having a separate library for rtems default configuration breaks autoconf
>> > probes for packages which are built using BSP specific arguments. These
>> > have built the same way for well over a decade.
>> >
>> > I know this can be resolved by passing in an extra library on the
>> configure
>> > line. But this broke a public behavior in an undesirable and subtle way.
>>
>> I think we have to make a trade-off between difficult to figure out
>> configuration issues which normally need the help of a linker map file (I
>> don't think the average user knows what this is) and an extra option for
>> already complicated Autoconf invocations.
>>
> 
> Is there any documentation on this flag and how it might be needed?
> 
> I am not suggesting changing this -- just stating that it had a visible
> side-effect that I don't recall getting the discussion that publicly
> visible behavior changes should get.

Maybe a section in the user manual which explains

1. which Autoconf stuff you need to build a multilib based configuration, and

2. which Autoconf stuff you need to build a BSP based configuration.



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