meson options - build vs target machine cpuflags question

Dan Gora dg at adax.com
Fri Mar 11 03:45:39 CET 2022


On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 10:19 PM Stephen Hemminger
<stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
>
> The ideal solution would be able to use gcc function attributes and dyanmic
> linking to do this at runtime - ie multiversion library.  But this opens a set
> of different problems like compiler versions and testing.

Detecting RDSEED at run time doesn't require any of that, but working
around the possible absence of getentropy() does.  However none of my
proposed solutions, including dynamic linking was deemed suitable.. or
something, so I gave up.


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