[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 1/2] mk:Simplify the ifdefs in rte.app.mk

[Olivier MATZ]

Hi Keith,

On 05/13/2015 03:17 PM, Wiles, Keith wrote:
>>>
>>>    endif # ifeq ($(NO_AUTOLIBS),)
>>>
>>> -LDLIBS += $(CPU_LDLIBS)
>>> +LDLIBS += $(_LDLIBS-y) $(EXTRA_LDLIBS)
>>>
>>
>> As discussed in the previous mail, all things that are about
>> EXTRA_LDLIBS should be moved in the second patch. Therefore,
>> the title of the second patch should not be "update doc...", but
>> something like "mk: introduce EXTRA_LDLIBS...".
>>
>> By the way, I missed that before, but it seems that your
>> patch removes CPU_LDLIBS, I don't think it's correct.
>
> I found no reference to CPU_LDLIBS in the docs or code other then then one
> line. We now have EXTRA_LDLIBS for the command line, right?

Yes, but your patch says "simplify the ifdef". Removing
a variable (even if it is not used) in this patch is not
a good idea.

Now, the CPU_CFLAGS, CPU_LDFLAGS, CPU_LDLIBS can be defined internally
by the rte.vars.mk in mk/arch/ or mk/machine/ directories.

Regards,
Olivier