[dpdk-dev] [RFC] Link ibrte_vhost to librte_pmd_vhost

[Yuanhan Liu]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:28:37PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
 >
> >Another way is applying a below patch.
> >--- a/drivers/net/vhost/Makefile
> >+++ b/drivers/net/vhost/Makefile
> >@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ LIB = librte_pmd_vhost.a
> >
> >  CFLAGS += -O3
> >  CFLAGS += $(WERROR_FLAGS)
> >+LDLIBS += -lrte_vhost
> >
> >  EXPORT_MAP := rte_pmd_vhost_version.map
> >
> >This is same way to link libpcap to librte_pmd_pcap.
> >What do you think about adding it to vhost PMD?
> 
> Yes, this is absolutely the right thing to do.
> 
> Ultimately this should be done for all dependencies in all libraries, but
> missing dependencies are even more pronounced in plugins so the sooner this
> goes in, the better.
> 
> Acked-by: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com>

Panu, thanks for the input.

Tetsuya, please submit a formal patch so that I can merge.

	--yliu