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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Cc: Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>,
	Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj@marvell.com>,
	Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>,
	Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>, dev <dev@dpdk.org>,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	"Gavin Hu (Arm Technology China)" <gavin.hu@arm.com>,
	Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>,
	"stable@dpdk.org" <stable@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 3/6] net/mlx: fix library search in meson build
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 11:14:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190418101450.GA1817@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <269e446ebbc3696429f73e153c769daf9c4ccced.camel@debian.org>

On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 10:25:19AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 19:48 +0000, Yongseok Koh wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Yongseok
> > 
> > > On Apr 15, 2019, at 3:12 AM, Luca Boccassi <
> > > bluca@debian.org
> > > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 2019-04-12 at 16:24 -0700, Yongseok Koh wrote:
> > > > If MLNX_OFED is installed, there's no .pc file installed for
> > > > libraries and
> > > > dependency() can't find libraries by pkg-config. By adding
> > > > fallback
> > > > of
> > > > using cc.find_library(), libraries are properly located.
> > > > 
> > > > Fixes: e30b4e566f47 ("build: improve dependency handling")
> > > > Cc: 
> > > > bluca@debian.org
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Cc: 
> > > > stable@dpdk.org
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Yongseok Koh <
> > > > yskoh@mellanox.com
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > ---
> > > > drivers/net/mlx4/meson.build | 19 +++++++++++--------
> > > > drivers/net/mlx5/meson.build | 19 +++++++++++--------
> > > > 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx4/meson.build
> > > > b/drivers/net/mlx4/meson.build
> > > > index de020701d1..9082f69f25 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/net/mlx4/meson.build
> > > > +++ b/drivers/net/mlx4/meson.build
> > > > @@ -13,21 +13,24 @@ if pmd_dlopen
> > > > 		'-DMLX4_GLUE_VERSION="@0@"'.format(LIB_GLUE_VERSION),
> > > > 	]
> > > > endif
> > > > -libs = [
> > > > -	dependency('libmnl', required:false),
> > > > -	dependency('libmlx4', required:false),
> > > > -	dependency('libibverbs', required:false),
> > > > -]
> > > > +libs = [ 'libmnl', 'libmlx4', 'libibverbs' ]
> > > > +lib_deps = []
> > > > build = true
> > > > foreach lib:libs
> > > > -	if not lib.found()
> > > > +	lib_dep = dependency(lib, required:false)
> > > > +	if not lib_dep.found()
> > > > +		lib_dep = cc.find_library(lib, required:false)
> > > 
> > > Doesn't this end up trying to link the test program to -llibmnl and
> > > thus failing?
> > 
> > I also worried about that. But it works fine.
> > Looks meson is smart enough. :-)
> 
> Sorry, not to be skeptical, but at least with the meson version I was
> using when doing something similar I'm sure this didn't work -
> find_library just takes the parameter, adds "-l" in front of it and
> uses it to compile.
> 
> In the meson configure log, do you see:
> 
> Dependency libmlx4 found: NO
> Library libmlx4 found: YES
> 

My understanding was the same as yours, Luca, and I'm pretty sure older
versions used to have that restriction. I think we should - out of an
abundance of caution - remove the "lib" prefix from all library/dependency
requests.

/Bruce

  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-18 10:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20190412232451.30197-1-yskoh@mellanox.com>
2019-04-12 23:24 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 1/6] meson: disable octeontx for buggy compilers on arm64 Yongseok Koh
2019-04-13  5:52   ` [dpdk-stable] [EXT] " Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2019-04-15 18:16     ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-12 23:24 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 3/6] net/mlx: fix library search in meson build Yongseok Koh
2019-04-15  9:19   ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-15 19:48     ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-15 10:12   ` Luca Boccassi
2019-04-15 19:48     ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18  9:25       ` Luca Boccassi
2019-04-18 10:14         ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2019-04-18 11:25           ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18  1:47 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 1/4] meson: disable octeontx for buggy compilers on arm64 Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18  1:47   ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 3/4] net/mlx: fix library search in meson build Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18  7:21   ` [dpdk-stable] [EXT] [PATCH v2 1/4] meson: disable octeontx for buggy compilers on arm64 Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-04-18 10:41     ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 11:04       ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-18 11:10         ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 11:49 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 1/4] drivers/event: " Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 11:49   ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 3/4] net/mlx: fix library search in meson build Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 12:02     ` Luca Boccassi

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