[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] Fix build issues with CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_COMBINE_LIBS=y

Neil Horman nhorman at tuxdriver.com
Fri Oct 3 02:52:41 CEST 2014


On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 02:10:55PM -0700, Matthew Hall wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 04:24:51PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> > This seems somewhat irrelevant to the patch.  The default configuration is
> > already the way you want it to be, shared library performance is actually very
> > close to static performance, and yes, people can choose how they want to build.
> > Not sure what point your trying to make here.
> > Neil
> 
> According to my reading, one of the subpatches threatened to disable the 
> single static libs when the grouped one is built. If you are working with 
> multiple DPDK apps, and one expects COMBINE_LIBS and the other does not, you 
> can't use both with the same copy of DPDK anymore if that subpatch gets 
> committed.
> 
Ah, sorry, I misread, and thought you were advoating for making static builds
the default over dynamic builds, which made no sense to me, as that was already
the case.

Neil

> Matthew.
> 


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