From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.mhcomputing.net (master.mhcomputing.net [74.208.46.186]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B685677B for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 23:25:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail.mhcomputing.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 629C780C50B; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:33:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:33:02 -0700 From: Matthew Hall To: "Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio" Message-ID: <20141031223302.GA17415@mhcomputing.net> References: <91383E96CE459D47BCE92EFBF5CE73B004E97FFB@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com> <20141030205000.GA9956@mhcomputing.net> <91383E96CE459D47BCE92EFBF5CE73B004E9AAFB@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <91383E96CE459D47BCE92EFBF5CE73B004E9AAFB@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC] Update/Improve 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: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:25:08 -0000 On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 10:45:07AM +0000, Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio wrote: > That flow work still presents some issues as they may be features that are > incompatible between each other and would need to be in different DPDK > copies. > > Regards, > Sergio So I think the two questions are: 1) Will there ever be cases where something will compile on some platform but break at runtime and thus need to be excluded from a library? 2) Are there incompatible features where the library could break if both are enabled at once? If the answer to both questions is 'No' then the simple single-shared, single-static, is definitely simplest and most reliable. Matthew.