[RFC PATCH 1/3] os: begin separating some OS compatibility from EAL

[Bruce Richardson]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 08:57:53PM +0200, Morten Brørup wrote:
> > From: Bruce Richardson [mailto:bruce.richardson at intel.com]
> > Sent: Monday, 29 August 2022 17.19
> > To: dev at dpdk.org
> > Cc: Bruce Richardson
> > Subject: [RFC PATCH 1/3] os: begin separating some OS compatibility
> > from EAL
> > 
> > Some library functionality we may want ahead of EAL build depends upon
> > some OS-specific functionality, so we create a new lib for that to be
> > built separately. For now, just includes fnmatch function for windows.
> 
> The description given in patch 0/3 mentions that this causes a circular dependency between the EAL and Log libraries. You should mention that here too. Until I re-read that, I didn't understand the need to move fnmatch() out of the EAL library - I was even sidetracking wildly, considering if it had to do with needing it on the host computer (for some host compiler checks).
> 

Sorry about that! :-)

> FYI, and not important: fnmatch() is a C library function (man 3), not a System call (man 2). But obviously still O/S specific, since it is not included with the C library for Windows.
> 
Interesting, but as you say, it doesn't actually affect this patch.

/Bruce