[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] malloc: fix combined lib build

Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio sergio.gonzalez.monroy at intel.com
Tue Jul 21 12:20:59 CEST 2015


On 21/07/2015 11:18, Sergio Gonzalez Monroy wrote:
> Malloc was moved to the EAL and dummy malloc library was left
> to not brake apps that had a librte_malloc.so dependency.
> Note that the dummy library will be removed in the next release.
>
> When building a combined library, all objects are copied to the same
> directory before creating the library itself.
>
> There a couple of issues:
>   - CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MALLOC is not a valid option anymore resulting
>   in wrong syntax and a compilation failure. Fix it by replacing it
>   with CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_EAL.
>   - As we kept a dummy library, there are now two objects with the
>   same name. This means that the proper rte_malloc.o object in eal gets
>   overwritten by an empty rte_malloc.o object from the dummy malloc lib.
>   Fix it by changing the name of rte_malloc.o object in the dummy
>   library.
>
> Fixes: 2f9d47013e4dbb738 ("mem: move librte_malloc to eal/common")
>
> Reported-by: Alin Rauta <alin.rauta at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy at intel.com>
> ---
>
I sent the same patch twice by accident, please ignore the second patch.

Sergio


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