crypto: move crypto objects out of libqemuutil.la

Future patches will be adding more crypto related APIs which
rely on QOM infrastructure. This creates a problem, because
QOM relies on library constructors to register objects. When
you have a file in a static .a library though which is only
referenced by a constructor the linker is dumb and will drop
that file when linking to the final executable :-( The only
workaround for this is to link the .a library to the executable
using the -Wl,--whole-archive flag, but this creates its own
set of problems because QEMU is relying on lazy linking for
libqemuutil.a. Using --whole-archive majorly increases the
size of final executables as they now contain a bunch of
object code they don't actually use.

The least bad option is to thus not include the crypto objects
in libqemuutil.la, and instead define a crypto-obj-y variable
that is referenced directly by all the executables that need
this code (tools + softmmu, but not qemu-ga). We avoid pulling
entire of crypto-obj-y into the userspace emulators as that
would force them to link to gnutls too, which is not required.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
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Daniel P. Berrange 2015-09-02 10:57:27 +01:00
parent b124533e06
commit fb37726db7
5 changed files with 27 additions and 12 deletions

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util-obj-y += init.o
util-obj-y += hash.o
util-obj-y += aes.o
util-obj-y += desrfb.o
util-obj-y += cipher.o
crypto-obj-y = init.o
crypto-obj-y += hash.o
crypto-obj-y += aes.o
crypto-obj-y += desrfb.o
crypto-obj-y += cipher.o
# Let the userspace emulators avoid linking gnutls/etc
crypto-aes-obj-y = aes.o