[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 0/2] Fix shared lib detection on Fedora/CentOS/RHEL

[Thomas Monjalon]

24/11/2020 16:13, Timothy Redaelli:
> Currently eal only tries to find shared lib by looking for .so files,
> but on Fedora, CentOS and RHEL the .so file is not installed by dpdk
> package, but it's only installed by dpdk-devel package, since .so files
> should not be necessary in order to run a program [1].
> 
> This series fix that by checking for .so.ABI_VERSION that should be
> available on any linux distribution.
> 
> [1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_devel_packages
> 
> Timothy Redaelli (2):
>   eal: fix shared lib mode detection
>   eal: fix loading of shared libs from driver plugin directories

This is very late to fix such core behaviour,
but it has been well reviewed and tested:

    Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
    Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
    Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
    Tested-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
    Tested-by: Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>

Applied, thanks