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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/6] mk: fix driver dependencies order for
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On 6/10/2016 2:19 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> On a linker command line, the dependencies must be declared after
> the libraries using them.
> It will avoid some issues when building an application with static
> libraries and --as-needed option.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
> ---

Do we need this which driver used which library detail?

I think it is enough to move all external library dependencies to the
last in command line, without paying attention who use it, Linker will
handle the rest, if that library is not required it won't be linked against.