Re: [Qemu-devel] Mac: your linker does not support --whole-archive or -z

[Anthony Liguori]

C.W. Betts wrote:
> I recently got my git tree up and running again, but I encountered 
> this error when trying to configure it:
> Error: your linker does not support --whole-archive or -z.
> Please report to address@hidden
>
> I'm running Mac OS X 10.5.7

Does this patch help?  Make sure to do configure and a full build.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 4111e7c..533fa35 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1708,6 +1708,11 @@ elif check_linker_flags -z,allextract -z,defaultextract 
; then
     # Solaris ld
     echo "ARLIBS_BEGIN=-Wl,-z,allextract" >> $config_mak
     echo "ARLIBS_END=-Wl,-z,defaultextract" >> $config_mak
+elif check_linker_flags -all_load ; then
+    echo "ARLIBS_BEGIN=-all_load" >> $config_mak
+    # This is technically obsolete but it seems like it would be necessary
+#    echo "ARLIBS_END=-noall_load" >> $config_mak
+    echo "ARLIBS_END=" >> $config_mak
 else
     echo "Error: your linker does not support --whole-archive or -z."
     echo "Please report to address@hidden"