[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mk: generate internal library dependencies from DEPDIRS-y automatically

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Tue Jun 7 15:00:45 CEST 2016


2016-06-07 14:36, Christian Ehrhardt:
> But I still struggle to see how to fix the circular dependency between
> librte_eal and librte_mempool.

Why is there a circular dependency?
Only because of logs using mempool?

> Maybe now is a time to look at this part of the original threads again to
> eventually get apps less overlinked?
> => http://www.dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-May/039441.html
> My naive suggestions in generalized form can be found there (no answer yet):
> =>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37351699/how-to-create-both-so-files-for-two-circular-depending-libraries

I would prefer removing the circular dependency.
Maybe we can rewrite the code to not use mempool or move it outside of EAL.


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