commit 306ea7ebe5c25608acdcb64f0d52aa4f37a45c37
author Chih-Hung Hsieh <chh@google.com> Thu Jan 22 14:05:15 2015 -0800
committer Chih-Hung Hsieh <chh@google.com> Thu Jan 22 19:09:20 2015 -0800
tree a4577488c99a1f61fe4a9f93889c0d4d433dd039
parent d280675405e605d47c74c037b0d2b4f06826ed4d

Add comments about the -shared flag.

Must build this linker as a shared object.
A statically linked module does not load during init.

BUG: 18008984

Change-Id: I5f0411129024edcb9381c473ea4e741a075e9184

linker/Android.mk

diff --git a/linker/Android.mk b/linker/Android.mk
index e1302db..989b0d2 100644
--- a/linker/Android.mk
+++ b/linker/Android.mk
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
 LOCAL_SRC_FILES_mips    := arch/mips/begin.S linker_mips.cpp
 LOCAL_SRC_FILES_mips64  := arch/mips64/begin.S linker_mips.cpp
 
+# -shared is used to overwrite the -Bstatic and -static
+# flags triggered by LOCAL_FORCE_STATIC_EXECUTABLE.
+# This dynamic linker is actually a shared object linked with static libraries.
 LOCAL_LDFLAGS := \
     -shared \
     -Wl,-Bsymbolic \