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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz@6wind.com>,
	"Eads, Gage" <gage.eads@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, "'Jacob,
	Jerin'" <Jerin.JacobKollanukkaran@cavium.com>,
	"santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com"
	<santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>,
	bruce.richardson@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Inter-PMD dependencies when building shared libraries
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2017 14:32:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2164137.oDFHlng5hp@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171005121254.r3h43hxs423dxr4k@glumotte.dev.6wind.com>

05/10/2017 14:12, Olivier MATZ:
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 08:48:29PM +0000, Eads, Gage wrote:
> > I believe I've spotted an issue in the way inter-PMD dependencies are handled when building shared libraries. The depdirs_rule in mk/rte.subdir.mk relies on DEPDIRS-xyz containing the names of subdirectories that xyz depends on. In mk/rte.lib.mk, these DEPDIRS are converted into LDLIBS. This works when the subdirectory names match the library names (i.e. any of the libraries under lib/). However when the dependency is on a PMD, the subdirectory and library names don't match.
[...]
> To solve this, we can either:
> 
> 1- do additional fixes of the "dir name -> lib name" conversion in
>    lib.mk for all this list above, as we are doing for eal or
>    ethdev. This looks feasible, but quite ugly.
> 
> 2- rename all directories to match the libname (ex: drivers/net/null
>    becomes drivers/net/librte_pmd_null). Looks to be a bad idea ;)
> 
> 3- stop to generate the list of libraries from depdirs: DEPDIRS is
>    kept for directory dependency at build, and the list of libraries
>    is advertised in LDLIBS variable, in each Makefile.
> 
> My vote would go for option 3.

We could have several libraries in the same directory.
So I vote for option 4:

4- Replace directory dependencies with library dependencies in makefiles.
   And convert libs to dirs with an autogenerated table.

Note: that's why I don't like recursive makefiles like we have
in the DPDK build system. It forces us to deal with directories
instead of just declaring dependencies on real file targets.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-05 12:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-02 20:48 Eads, Gage
2017-10-05 12:12 ` Olivier MATZ
2017-10-05 12:32   ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2017-10-05 12:50     ` Bruce Richardson
2017-10-12 16:04       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] mk: fix LDLIBS Olivier Matz
2017-10-12 16:04         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] crypto/dpaa2_sec: remove uneffective dependency Olivier Matz
2017-10-12 16:04         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] mempool/octeontx: fix dependency Olivier Matz
2017-10-12 16:04         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] mk: do not generate LDLIBS from directory dependencies Olivier Matz
2017-10-24  0:11           ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-10-23 14:39         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] mk: fix LDLIBS Eads, Gage
2017-10-24  0:15           ` Thomas Monjalon

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