[PATCH 1/1] buildtools: remove absolute paths from pc file

[Bruce Richardson]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2026 at 10:02:20AM +0530, Srikanth Yalavarthi wrote:
> When linking with non-versioned libraries, absolute paths
> of the libraries are added to libdpdk.pc. This patch replaces
> the absolute path with correct linker flags, -l<libname>.
> 

Do we need to check if we need a "-L" flag for some of these paths that are
stripped?

> https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/7766
> 
> Signed-off-by: Srikanth Yalavarthi <syalavarthi at marvell.com>
> ---
>  buildtools/pkg-config/set-static-linker-flags.py | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/buildtools/pkg-config/set-static-linker-flags.py b/buildtools/pkg-config/set-static-linker-flags.py
> index 2745db34c29..bd217b07fc8 100644
> --- a/buildtools/pkg-config/set-static-linker-flags.py
> +++ b/buildtools/pkg-config/set-static-linker-flags.py
> @@ -6,9 +6,16 @@
>  # Should be called from meson build itself
>  import os
>  import sys
> +import re
>  
>  
>  def fix_ldflag(f):
> +    if f.startswith('/'):
> +        libfile = os.path.basename(f)
> +        m = re.match(r'^lib(.+?)\.(a|so(?:\..*)?)$', libfile)
> +        if m:
> +            return '-l' + m.group(1)
> +
>      if not f.startswith('-lrte_'):
>          return f
>      return '-l:lib' + f[2:] + '.a'
> -- 
> 2.34.1
>