Sometimes a library is needed to support particular functionality in
gem5, and that functionality is only used (or even desirable) in
certain binaries SCons can build. We can currently filter sources to
include in a particular executable using tags, but libraries have been
added to the environment globally using the LIBS variable which applies
to all Executables.
This change adds a SourceLib() mechanism which is a new category of
source which represents libraries. This is independent from classes
which inherit from SourceFile which represent actual files, as opposed
to more abstract libraries.
When gem5 builds an executable, the filters it provides are used to
select both Source()-es, aka c/c++ files, and libraries. If something
like a unit test does not need all the libraries gem5 proper does,
then those won't be picked up by its filter, and it won't include them.
Change-Id: I003e029eb82f7800a7ecff698c260e2d18ea2900
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/58069
Reviewed-by: Yu-hsin Wang <yuhsingw@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
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