[PATCH] x86: Use sysdep.o from libc.a in static libraries

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 08/04/2016 05:19 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Fedora needs to relink libpthread.a into a single object file to
> support some application needs. Starting with
> 
> commit fb1cf108115f7e2e4510859693431b3473657d77
> Author: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
> Date:   Tue Oct 13 11:58:53 2015 -0700
> 
>     Add INLINE_SYSCALL_ERROR_RETURN_VALUE
> 
> this prevents static linking due to multiple copies of the functions
> from sysdep.o.
> 
> The attached patch skips adding sysdep.o for static libraries. Okay
> to commit?
> 
> (No bug filed because this is a downstream bug only, but dropping the
> additional copy of sysdep.o seems to make sense upstream as well.)

Just to be clear: User visible changes need bugs, downstream or not.

I leave it up to you to decide if you want a bug to track this or not,
I'm not picky since this is an odd case where any change is visible
as a change in the statically linked objects.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.