From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, thomas@monjalon.net, david.marchand@redhat.com,
ktraynor@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 6/7] build/pkg-config: improve static linking flags
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:58:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200429105810.GF1907@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d5e565c14c02568c6ab8de0af492f4a742acafda.camel@debian.org>
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 11:37:02AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-04-29 at 11:08 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > Rather than setting -Bstatic in the linker flags when doing a static link,
> > and then having to explicitly set -Bdynamic again afterwards, we can update
> > the pkg-config file to use -l:libfoo.a syntax to explicitly refer to the
> > static library in question. Since this syntax is not supported by meson's
> > pkg-config module directly, we can post-process the .pc files instead to
> > adjust them.
> >
> > Once done, we can simplify the examples' makefiles and the docs by removing
> > the explicit static flag
>
> This sounds like a worthwhile feature request for Meson to me. Would
> you be up for opening an RFE on their issue tracker explaining the use
> case, please?
>
Yes, I can do so.
I didn't look to implement this in meson myself because it would take so
long to get into a version that we would use as our minimum version. :-(
/Bruce
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Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-29 10:08 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/7] improve DPDK static builds with meson Bruce Richardson
2020-04-29 10:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/7] build: always link-whole DPDK static libraries Bruce Richardson
2020-04-29 10:18 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-29 10:42 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-04-29 10:49 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-29 14:04 ` Andrzej Ostruszka [C]
2020-04-29 10:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/7] build: remove unnecessary variable Bruce Richardson
2020-04-29 10:19 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-29 10:29 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-04-29 10:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/7] devtools/test-meson-builds.sh: add pkg-config static builds Bruce Richardson
2020-04-29 10:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/7] build: move pkg-config creation to separate file Bruce Richardson
2020-04-29 10:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/7] build/pkg-config: output driver libs first for static build Bruce Richardson
2020-04-29 10:30 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-29 10:54 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-04-29 10:40 ` Luca Boccassi
2020-04-29 11:03 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-04-29 11:12 ` Luca Boccassi
2020-04-29 10:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 6/7] build/pkg-config: improve static linking flags Bruce Richardson
2020-04-29 10:32 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-29 10:56 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-04-29 10:57 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-29 10:37 ` Luca Boccassi
2020-04-29 10:58 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2020-04-29 11:10 ` Luca Boccassi
2020-04-29 10:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 7/7] build/pkg-config: prevent overlinking Bruce Richardson
2020-04-29 10:34 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-29 11:00 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-05-01 13:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/7] improve DPDK static builds with meson Bruce Richardson
2020-05-01 13:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/7] build: always link-whole DPDK static libraries Bruce Richardson
2020-05-01 13:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/7] build: remove unnecessary variable Bruce Richardson
2020-05-01 13:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/7] devtools/test-meson-builds.sh: add pkg-config static builds Bruce Richardson
2020-05-01 13:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/7] build: move pkg-config creation to separate file Bruce Richardson
2020-05-01 13:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/7] build/pkg-config: output driver libs first for static build Bruce Richardson
2020-05-01 13:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 6/7] build/pkg-config: improve static linking flags Bruce Richardson
2020-05-01 13:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 7/7] build/pkg-config: prevent overlinking Bruce Richardson
2020-05-01 14:02 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/7] improve DPDK static builds with meson Luca Boccassi
2020-06-30 13:25 ` Pai G, Sunil
2020-06-30 16:37 ` Stokes, Ian
2020-07-01 17:29 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-07-02 10:46 ` Stokes, Ian
2020-06-30 14:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 " Bruce Richardson
2020-06-30 14:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/7] build: always link-whole DPDK static libraries Bruce Richardson
2020-07-01 14:19 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-06-30 14:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/7] build: remove unnecessary variable Bruce Richardson
2020-06-30 14:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/7] devtools/test-meson-builds.sh: add pkg-config static builds Bruce Richardson
2020-06-30 14:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/7] build: move pkg-config creation to separate file Bruce Richardson
2020-06-30 14:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/7] build/pkg-config: output driver libs first for static build Bruce Richardson
2020-07-01 7:50 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-07-01 8:43 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-07-01 14:42 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-07-01 15:16 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-07-01 15:36 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-07-01 15:45 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-07-01 16:04 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-06-30 14:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 6/7] build/pkg-config: improve static linking flags Bruce Richardson
2020-07-01 14:30 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-07-01 14:33 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-07-01 14:36 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-07-01 14:45 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-06-30 14:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 7/7] build/pkg-config: prevent overlinking Bruce Richardson
2020-07-01 7:56 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-07-01 8:58 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-07-01 17:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/7] improve DPDK static builds with meson Thomas Monjalon
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