[RFC v1 1/1] devtools: allow libraries with no global section

[David Marchand]

On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 3:36 PM Paul Szczepanek <paul.szczepanek at arm.com> wrote:
>
> If a library has no global section in the version.map
> allow it not to have symbols and not report it as an error.
> This happens if a library doesn't export any functions
> if they're all inline.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Szczepanek <paul.szczepanek at arm.com>

Added Bruce.

Having a library without any actual code compiled is (I think) new in DPDK.

On the other hand, for headers only, there should be no need for a
version.map file at all.

The current meson code expects that every library provides some files
to compile via the sources variable and it expects a version.map file
too.
I wonder if we could skip the whole library generation at the
lib/meson.build level.
Something like:

diff --git a/lib/meson.build b/lib/meson.build
index 179a272932..f0bbab6658 100644
--- a/lib/meson.build
+++ b/lib/meson.build
@@ -222,6 +222,10 @@ foreach l:libraries
     includes += include_directories(l)
     dpdk_includes += include_directories(l)

+    if sources.length() == 0
+        continue
+    endif
+
     if developer_mode and is_windows and use_function_versioning
         message('@0@: Function versioning is not supported by
Windows.'.format(name))
     endif

No version.map, no check to update :-)


-- 
David Marchand