From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: "Wiles, Keith" <keith.wiles@intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] NO_AUTOLIB is this variable really needed?
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 10:10:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150501091034.GB7992@bricha3-MOBL3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D167C1D1.1E6CE%keith.wiles@intel.com>
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 05:26:57PM +0100, Wiles, Keith wrote:
>
>
> On 4/30/15, 11:24 AM, "Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 02:55:47PM +0000, Wiles, Keith wrote:
> >> What is the NO_AUTOLIB variable used for anyway, the doc states this:
> >>
> >>
> >> * NO_AUTOLIBS: If set, the libraries provided by the framework will not
> >>be
> >> included in the LDLIBS variable automatically.
> >>
> >> Why was this variable created, do we have really good reason? It seems
> >> like the variable removes almost all of the standard libs.
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> ++Keith
> >>
> >I think that is a hang-over from the baremetal days, and can probably go
> >away
> >now. [It was probably used for the loader app or something]
>
> Do we want me to submit a patch to remove it? A new patch set :-)
If it's completely unused in DPDK, it should be removed.
/Bruce
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2015-04-30 14:55 Wiles, Keith
2015-04-30 16:24 ` Bruce Richardson
2015-04-30 16:26 ` Wiles, Keith
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