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authorJussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com>2020-11-14 16:43:00 +0200
committerJussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com>2020-11-27 18:20:52 +0200
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Add prelinking support for static libraries.prelink
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@@ -1574,6 +1574,10 @@ has one argument the others don't have:
option has no effect on Windows and OS X since it doesn't make
sense on Windows and PIC cannot be disabled on OS X.
+- `prelink` *since0.57.0*: if `true` the object files in the target
+ will be prelinked, meaning that it will contain only one prelinked
+ object file rather than the individual object files.
+
### subdir()
``` meson
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+## Add support for prelinked static libraries
+
+The static library gains a new `prelink` keyword argument that can be
+used to prelink object files in that target. This is currently only
+supported for the GNU toolchain, patches to add it to other compilers
+are most welcome.