From f49821ee32b76b1a356fab17316eb62430182ecf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Piggin Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 00:25:04 +1000 Subject: kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a Incremental linking is gone, so rename built-in.o to built-in.a, which is the usual extension for archive files. This patch does two things, first is a simple search/replace: git grep -l 'built-in\.o' | xargs sed -i 's/built-in\.o/built-in\.a/g' The second is to invert nesting of nested text manipulations to avoid filtering built-in.a out from libs-y2: -libs-y2 := $(filter-out %.a, $(patsubst %/, %/built-in.a, $(libs-y))) +libs-y2 := $(patsubst %/, %/built-in.a, $(filter-out %.a, $(libs-y))) Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada --- Documentation/process/changes.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/process/changes.rst') diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst index 81cdb528ad46..4f19a9725f76 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Binutils -------- The build system has, as of 4.13, switched to using thin archives (`ar T`) -rather than incremental linking (`ld -r`) for built-in.o intermediate steps. +rather than incremental linking (`ld -r`) for built-in.a intermediate steps. This requires binutils 2.20 or newer. Flex -- cgit v1.2.3