From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-f178.google.com (mail-wi0-f178.google.com [209.85.212.178]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22A6E5A7A for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 17:52:21 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-wi0-f178.google.com with SMTP id em10so15903782wid.5 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 08:52:21 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:organization :user-agent:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=ykL3msqcVSvtPFavgZMJXgDpZFlvsLUf8i2Uy6UXkqM=; b=LYQaZXNvSyaWgu2K3rgANhE7KfcvkFUp3mR22PnoVkUc1xtSXB2I5y2Ex45MdExRDn MCcX4cEa0iZclRoXuK16b4pZVrrY1LPpiRBDbnJJhPb4YMAADOtvewc3lrVU4AxmohEI ukeXrcuH3tMMvAHFiCjkpjjNTSsduPZM++S2bWD+ARXxMZgTpqhV5pCNLFjtqYPcKeJS aOUMNeJBJPx+Eu4P59uoMfSOBKL4Jtmgjz/G/UF4ddeHn0MvCD/WJYydBFQTjeXLOQnH ylBof+aKAlvtHxLupr9/kW2hXP0ztgv07AArI7tthrwotVaf/nFHI2IDpLLBdB94icew izdw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlQZ5+EFkpvuajGqB7KhMBCYnvHm64PKd7eMpKMcxYyiCtuKVeLuV8g/IBeEYetesxNRAK5 X-Received: by 10.194.60.243 with SMTP id k19mr61785781wjr.88.1421081540932; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 08:52:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from xps13.localnet (136-92-190-109.dsl.ovh.fr. [109.190.92.136]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id mo12sm22289302wjc.35.2015.01.12.08.52.19 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 12 Jan 2015 08:52:20 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 17:51:59 +0100 Message-ID: <16150803.N0UIx0csq3@xps13> Organization: 6WIND User-Agent: KMail/4.14.3 (Linux/3.17.6-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1421080446-19249-1-git-send-email-sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com> References: <1421080446-19249-1-git-send-email-sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: dev@dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC 00/13] Update build system X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 16:52:21 -0000 Hi Sergio, 2015-01-12 16:33, Sergio Gonzalez Monroy: > This patch series updates the DPDK build system. Thanks for proposing such rework. We need discussions on that topic. So I ask some questions below. > Following are the goals it tries to accomplish: > - Create a library containing core DPDK libraries (librte_eal, > librte_malloc, librte_mempool, librte_mbuf and librte_ring). > The idea of core libraries is to group those libraries that are > always required for any DPDK application. How is it better? Is it only to reduce dependencies lines? > - Remove config option to build a combined library. Why removing combined library? Is there people finding it helpful? > - For shared libraries, explicitly link against dependant > libraries (adding entries to DT_NEEDED). OK, good. > - Update app linking flags against static/shared DPDK libs. > > Note that this patch turns up being quite big because of moving lib > directories to a new subdirectory. > I have ommited the actual diff from the patch doing the move of librte_eal > as it is quite big (6MB). Probably a different approach is preferred. Why do you think moving directories is needed? Thanks -- Thomas