Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] build: fix soname info for 19.11 compatiblity

[David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>]

Hello Bruce,

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 4:16 PM Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
>
> The soname for each stable ABI version should be just the ABI version major
> number without the minor number. Unfortunately both major and minor were
> used causing version 20.1 to be incompatible with 20.0.
>
> This patch fixes the issue by switching from 2-part to 3-part ABI version
> numbers so that we can keep 20.0 as soname and using the final digits to
> identify the 20.x releases which are ABI compatible. This requires changes
> to both make and meson builds to handle the three-digit version and shrink
> it to 2-digit for soname.
>
> Fixes: cba806e07d6f ("build: change ABI versioning to global")
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>

There is an issue with the ethtool example.

  INSTALL-APP server
  INSTALL-MAP server.map
cat: /home/dmarchan/dpdk/examples/ethtool/lib/ABI_VERSION: No such
file or directory
  CC rte_ethtool.o
  LD librte_ethtool.so.0.
  INSTALL-LIB librte_ethtool.so.0.
gmake[3]: stat:
/home/dmarchan/builds/i686-native-linux-gcc+shared+debug+default/examples/ethtool/lib/i686-native-linux-gcc/lib/librte_ethtool.so.0.:
Too many levels of symbolic links
== ethtool-app


-- 
David Marchand