[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 7/7] build/pkg-config: prevent overlinking

[Thomas Monjalon]

29/04/2020 12:08, Bruce Richardson:
> Add the --as-needed linker flag to the DPDK library list in the pkg-config
> file so as to prevent overlinking. Without this flag, when linking
> statically using flags from $(pkg-config --static --libs libdpdk), all DPDK
> drivers and libs were statically linked in, but the binary was also
> requiring all the shared versions be present to run.

I consider "--as-needed" as a workaround here.
The root issue is that pkg-config does not distinguish clearly
shared and static linkage, right?