[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mk: fix the combined library problems by replacing it with a linker script

[Christian Ehrhardt]

Hi,
FYI I kind of "gave up" (not as bad as it sounds) and started looking into
shipping it as individual libraries + linker script as well.
To me it seemed what was more accepted in all the former discussions.

It will surely cause more work for me in the short term, but I hope after
the initial hill I have to climb to make it happen it will be not too much
in future releases.

So if "we" were the only one causing this to be deferred consider it for
2.2.
That way distributions would become more similar which might help consumers
of the DPDK libraries.
In the worst case I can reverse apply it for 2.2 to get some more time to
get it to work properly for us later on.

Looking at the great changes to "make install" by Thomas being in 2.2 -
getting the linker script "official" in 2.2 as well would also help to not
get a major overhaul to packaging every version :-)

have a great week,
Christian



Christian Ehrhardt
Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
wrote:

> 2015-11-24 16:31, Panu Matilainen:
> > The physically linked-together combined library has been an increasing
> > source of problems, as was predicted when library and symbol versioning
> > was introduced. Replace the complex and fragile construction with a
> > simple linker script which achieves the same without all the problems,
> > remove the related kludges from eg mlx drivers.
> >
> > Since creating the linker script is practically zero cost, remove the
> > config option and just create it always.
> >
> > Based on a patch by Sergio Gonzales Monroy, linker script approach
> > initially suggested by Neil Horman.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy at intel.com>
> > Suggested-by: Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com>
>
> As it is a big change and discussion is not totally closed,
> it is deferred to release 2.3.
> The fix from Ferruh could be sufficient for 2.2.
>