From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7660A00C5; Thu, 2 Jul 2020 12:47:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 411051D92D; Thu, 2 Jul 2020 12:47:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga12.intel.com (mga12.intel.com [192.55.52.136]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E5571D924 for <dev@dpdk.org>; Thu, 2 Jul 2020 12:47:02 +0200 (CEST) IronPort-SDR: bdwjxnePdpUBSrU6Nktj6gOULxVtD4P2s5VVoSSfNGXqnM7BncU2E8Qe1iKXzNaFm5GFfgmWxb cRLLmMy8itEA== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6000,8403,9669"; a="126472267" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.75,304,1589266800"; d="scan'208";a="126472267" X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga006.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.51]) by fmsmga106.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 02 Jul 2020 03:47:01 -0700 IronPort-SDR: i0bFah4iRLcy6L0TYn3mWG/+HooCMuhljRf4Shmq26ramogenvm81iIbxpeo2IDbuE/Cqx9G2v wLSoLjDMOJdg== X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.75,304,1589266800"; d="scan'208";a="281917465" Received: from irsmsx151.ger.corp.intel.com ([163.33.192.59]) by orsmga006.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 02 Jul 2020 03:47:00 -0700 Received: from irsmsx103.ger.corp.intel.com ([169.254.3.245]) by IRSMSX151.ger.corp.intel.com ([169.254.4.145]) with mapi id 14.03.0439.000; Thu, 2 Jul 2020 11:46:59 +0100 From: "Stokes, Ian" <ian.stokes@intel.com> To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>, "Pai G, Sunil" <sunil.pai.g@intel.com>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org> CC: "Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>, "bluca@debian.org" <bluca@debian.org>, "david.marchand@redhat.com" <david.marchand@redhat.com>, "ktraynor@redhat.com" <ktraynor@redhat.com>, "Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com> Thread-Topic: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/7] improve DPDK static builds with meson Thread-Index: AQHWT81FEd4sEd9QpUupr2MqZ5Nxh6j0HF2Q Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 10:46:58 +0000 Message-ID: <52156197ADF84D4FB1B836FA75938A8918E9F739@IRSMSX103.ger.corp.intel.com> References: <20200429100831.398-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com> <MWHPR11MB180507EA254EAFC803AD3657BD6F0@MWHPR11MB1805.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> <52156197ADF84D4FB1B836FA75938A8918E9B1BE@IRSMSX103.ger.corp.intel.com> <12061792.tHt7C13mB3@thomas> In-Reply-To: <12061792.tHt7C13mB3@thomas> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: dlp-product: dlpe-windows dlp-reaction: no-action dlp-version: 11.5.1.3 x-originating-ip: [163.33.239.181] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/7] improve DPDK static builds with meson X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions <dev.dpdk.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://mails.dpdk.org/options/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/> List-Post: <mailto:dev@dpdk.org> List-Help: <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://mails.dpdk.org/listinfo/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> > 30/06/2020 18:37, Stokes, Ian: > > > This series allows OVS to consume the DPDK libraries appropriately > > > (static and > > > shared) and simplifies the build. > > > When building OVS with DPDK, without this patch, the linker would > > > always pick the shared libraries over static even after specifying th= e - > Bstatic flag. > > > With this patch, no such behavior is observed. So, it would be very > > > helpful for the OVS community if this patch is merged in DPDK. > > > > > > I would also ask this series to be back ported to 19.11 as OVS can > > > immediately consume it on the latest master instead of waiting on > > > the next DPDK release i.e > > > 20.11 > > > > +1, if this would be possible to apply to 19.11 as a backport it would = enable > OVS to move quicker and update the OVS Travis as well as docs and build > scripts rather than waiting for DPDK 20.11. Sunil has already been workin= g on > these changes I believe. > > > > Alternatively if it cant be backported to 19.11, then possibly we could= look > at merging Sunil's patches to the dpdk-latest branch in OVS once makefile= s > are deprecated in DPDK master? >=20 > Why waiting for makefiles to be deprecated? > These patches are merged in latest DPDK, so you can proceed in OVS. >=20 >=20 Good point, Sunil has a patchset ready to go, will have him post them to th= e OVS ML for dpdk-latest branch today. Regards Ian