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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 09:27:28 -0700
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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Subject: [dpdk-dev] pmdinfo fails with GCC link-time-optimization
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GCC link-time-optimization generates much better code (at expense of build time)
so it is logical to use it for DPDK.

But the current PMDINFO steps fail since .o file is not a binary with lto.

Any ideas or planned fixes?

== Build drivers/mempool/octeontx
  CC octeontx_ssovf.o
  PMDINFO octeontx_ssovf.o.pmd.c
No drivers registered
/home/shemminger/dpdk/netvsc/mk/internal/rte.compile-pre.mk:114: recipe for target 'octeontx_ssovf.o' failed