Re: test10-pre7

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Mon Oct 30 2000 - 17:24:13 EST


On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Ya know, sorting those lists causes this problem, too... usb.o is
> listed first in the various lists, as is usbcore.o. Is it possible to
> avoid sorting? Doing so will fix this, and also any other link order
> breakage like this that exists, too.

This is the right fix. We MUST NOT sort those things.

The only reason for sorting is apparently to remove the "multi-objs"
things, and replace them with the object files they are composed of.

To which I say "Why?"

It makes more sense to just leave the multi's there.

                Linus

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Oct 31 2000 - 21:00:28 EST