[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] compat: Add infrastructure to support symbol versioning

[Neil Horman]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 02:00:17PM -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 05:09:55PM +0000, Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio wrote:
> > > From: Neil Horman [mailto:nhorman at tuxdriver.com]
> > > Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 4:35 PM
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 02:01:10PM +0000, Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > From: Neil Horman [mailto:nhorman at tuxdriver.com]
> > > > > Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2014 9:02 PM
> > > > We could move the ifneq($(LIB),) to the _INSTALL variable (top of the same
> > > file).
> > > > Something like this:
> > > >
> > > > -_INSTALL = $(INSTALL-FILES-y) $(SYMLINK-FILES-y)
> > > > $(RTE_OUTPUT)/lib/$(LIB)
> > > > +_INSTALL = $(INSTALL-FILES-y) $(SYMLINK-FILES-y) ifneq ($(LIB),)
> > > > +_INSTALL += $(RTE_OUTPUT)/lib/$(LIB) endif
> > > >
> > > Actually, as I look at it, this second one doesn't seem to make any sense to
> > > me.
> > > _INSTALL as a variable doesn't seem to get used anywhere that I can see,
> > > certainly not in the capacity of copying shared libraries into the build/lib area
> > > so that the example apps can get linked with them.  So I'm not sure this
> > > makes sense.
> > > 
> > The _INSTALL var gets expanded for the rule '_install' in mk/internal/rte.install-post.mk if I am not mistaken.
> > That would trigger the rule $(RTE_OUTPUT)/lib/$(LIB) which in turn builds and copy the shared/static library to build/lib.
> > 
> > If we do not add $(RTE_OUTPUT)/lib/$(LIB) to _INSTALL, then the rule will not trigger.
> > 
> I get all of that, but something isn't right with either your reasoning, or my
> coding, as If I make the change you suggest, nothing ever gets copied into the
> build/lib directory, either for a static or DSO build.
> 
> Neil
> 
Ah, nm, I figured it out, I had accidentally deleted the copy operation which
needs to remain there.  I'll fix this up and repost.
Neil

> > Regards,
> > Sergio
> > 
> > > Neil
> > > 
> > 
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