From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga05.intel.com (mga05.intel.com [192.55.52.43]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 241AE1B938; Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:57:37 +0100 (CET) X-Amp-Result: UNKNOWN X-Amp-Original-Verdict: FILE UNKNOWN X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga008.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.58]) by fmsmga105.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 11 Jan 2019 01:57:37 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.56,465,1539673200"; d="scan'208";a="115972607" Received: from bricha3-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com ([10.237.221.54]) by fmsmga008.fm.intel.com with SMTP; 11 Jan 2019 01:57:34 -0800 Received: by (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 11 Jan 2019 09:57:33 +0000 Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 09:57:33 +0000 From: Bruce Richardson To: "Gavin Hu (Arm Technology China)" Cc: Luca Boccassi , "dev@dpdk.org" , "christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com" , "stable@dpdk.org" , Honnappa Nagarahalli , "jerinj@marvell.com" Message-ID: <20190111095732.GA21328@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> References: <20190110172806.12952-1-bluca@debian.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: Intel Research and Development Ireland Ltd. User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] build: mention -march in pkg-config description X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 09:57:38 -0000 On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 03:58:46AM +0000, Gavin Hu (Arm Technology China) wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: dev On Behalf Of Luca Boccassi > > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2019 1:28 AM > > To: dev@dpdk.org > > Cc: bruce.richardson@intel.com; christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com; Luca > > Boccassi ; stable@dpdk.org > > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] build: mention -march in pkg-config description > > > > Applications need to at least match DPDK's -march option to build > > successfully due to some static inline functions in the public headers. > > > > This might cause problems, especially in distributions, so add a note > > in the pkg-config description. > > > > Fixes: a25a650be5f0 ("build: add infrastructure for meson and ninja builds") > > Cc: stable@dpdk.org > > > > Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi > > --- > > At the moment there are no adversely affected applications in Debian and > > Ubuntu (collectd builds a separate shared object, and OVS/virtio-forwareder > > are stand-alone DPDK-specific binaries), but we thought that having an > > explicit notice would be good. > > > > meson.build | 4 +++- > > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build > > index f87dc235f..35126106a 100644 > > --- a/meson.build > > +++ b/meson.build > > @@ -83,7 +83,9 @@ pkg.generate(name: meson.project_name(), > > libraries: dpdk_libraries, > > libraries_private: dpdk_drivers + dpdk_static_libraries + > > ['-Wl,-Bdynamic'] + dpdk_extra_ldflags, > > -description: 'The Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)', > > +description: '''The Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK). > > +Note that CFLAGS might contain an -march flag higher than typical baseline. > > +This is required for a number of static inline functions in the public > From Arm's perspective, this notice is really necessary for some extensions like LSE to work for performance. > Reviewed-by: Gavin Hu > No objection from me for more documentation. Acked-by: Bruce Richardson