[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: fix dpdk gcc build on Arm

[Juraj Linkeš]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 1:41 PM
> To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>; Juraj Linkeš
> <juraj.linkes at pantheon.tech>
> Cc: arybchenko at solarflare.com; dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethdev: fix dpdk gcc build on Arm
> 
> On 6/3/2020 11:16 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 03/06/2020 11:48, Juraj Linkeš:
> >> Directive #include <file> in gcc implementation searches for files in
> >> a standard list of system directories, which leads to a sporadici
> >> build error on Taishan arm machines:
> >> /tmp/openvpp-testing/dpdk/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h:4287:10:
> >> fatal error: rte_ethdev_core.h:
> >> No such file or directory #include <rte_ethdev_core.h>
> >
> > Would be interesting to know why nobody else hit such error?
> 
> 
> I can't see why this is happening, in the 'mk/rte.lib.mk' we have following:
> 
> "
> install: _preinstall build _postinstall
> build: _preinstall
> "
> 
> Which should cause the library header files installed before building .c files in
> that library.
> So when compiling 'rte_class_eth.c', the header files should be already in install
> folder.
> 
> 
> I can see how/why changing to "" fixes the issue but I am not sure about this fix.
> "rte_ethdev.h" is a public header file, that applications will include it in their
> applications. In the public library it is more proper to have other includes from
> system folder, using format <>.
> Again, I can't see why it is failing but I believe we should find another solution
> for _internal_ build error.
> 
> 
> A very simple solution can be following, but that is also not good, since it solves
> the issue by creating a dependency to the order of the header includes:
>  diff --git a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_class_eth.c b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_class_eth.c
>  index 6338355e25..3030c49020 100644
>  --- a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_class_eth.c
>  +++ b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_class_eth.c
>  @@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
>   #include <rte_kvargs.h>
>   #include <rte_log.h>
> 
>  -#include "rte_ethdev.h"
>   #include "rte_ethdev_core.h"
>  +#include "rte_ethdev.h"
>   #include "rte_ethdev_driver.h"
>   #include "ethdev_private.h"
> 

Thomas, Ferruh, what should be the solution? I'm not an expert on this and I can't really offer anything better, but I'd like that this gets fixed.

> >
> >
> >> Fix this by replacing the directive with #include "file" which
> >> searches for files first in the directory containing the current file
> >> and other directories only after that.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Juraj Linkeš <juraj.linkes at pantheon.tech>
> >
> > What about #include <rte_ethdev_trace.h> ?
> >
> > Except this,
> > Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> >
> >
> > I would change the title to be more generic (nothing specific to gcc or Arm
> here):
> > 	ethdev: fix local include
> >
> > It needs to be backported, so these lines are required:
> > 	Fixes: 7f0a669e7b04 ("ethdev: add allocation helper for virtual drivers")
> > 	Fixes: dcd5c8112bc3 ("ethdev: add PCI driver helpers")
> > 	Fixes: ffc905f3b856 ("ethdev: separate driver APIs")
> > 	Fixes: 331c447ad913 ("ethdev: separate internal structures into own
> header")
> > 	Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> >
> >
> >