[PATCH u-boot 16/39] build: use thin archives instead of incremental linking

[Marek Behun]

On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 19:32:10 +0800
Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 7:18 PM Marek Behun <marek.behun at nic.cz> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 18:44:58 +0800
> > Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  
> > > Could you investigate why?  
> >
> > I could, but I don't understand why exactly I should
> > - Linux is also using --whole-archive
> > - it is working
> > - I have other things I would like to work on
> >
> > Maybe you could look into this? :)  
> 
> Yes, I can look into this. I wonder if you already knew this which
> could save some time as this is a normal review process, asking for
> clarifications if something isn't clear.

If I knew what? Whether it is used in Linux also?

To be honest I wasn't sure, I looked into Linux' sources before
replying.

The thing is, when I first worked on these patches, I just started with
some old LTO patches for Linux (which were not even merged then), and
played with the options until LTO worked for sandbox. Then the things
started to get complicated and I rebased the series many times, so I
did not remember which came from where.

Marek