From 306ea7ebe5c25608acdcb64f0d52aa4f37a45c37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chih-Hung Hsieh <chh@google.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 14:05:15 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] 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 | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/linker/Android.mk b/linker/Android.mk
index e1302dbc9..989b0d2bf 100644
--- a/linker/Android.mk
+++ b/linker/Android.mk
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ LOCAL_SRC_FILES_x86_64  := arch/x86_64/begin.S
 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 \