Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/af_xdp: add libelf for pmd_af_xdp.

[Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>]

On Wed, 2019-05-15 at 13:24 -0700, William Tu wrote:
> The libbpf requires linking elf library. Fix it by
> adding -lelf.
> 
> Fixes: f1debd77efaf ("net/af_xdp: introduce AF_XDP PMD")
> Signed-off-by: William Tu <
> u9012063@gmail.com
> >
> ---
>  mk/rte.app.mk | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mk/rte.app.mk b/mk/rte.app.mk
> index 7c9b4b538e52..e5d15218618a 100644
> --- a/mk/rte.app.mk
> +++ b/mk/rte.app.mk
> @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ _LDLIBS-$(CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_DPAA2_MEMPOOL)  +=
> -lrte_mempool_dpaa2
>  endif
>  
>  _LDLIBS-$(CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_AF_PACKET)  += -lrte_pmd_af_packet
> -_LDLIBS-$(CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_AF_XDP)     += -lrte_pmd_af_xdp
> -lbpf
> +_LDLIBS-$(CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_AF_XDP)     += -lrte_pmd_af_xdp
> -lbpf -lelf
>  _LDLIBS-$(CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_ARK_PMD)        += -lrte_pmd_ark
>  _LDLIBS-$(CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_ATLANTIC_PMD)   += -lrte_pmd_atlantic
>  _LDLIBS-$(CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_AVP_PMD)        += -lrte_pmd_avp

Hi,

This was already discussed, and libbpf needs to link with libelf itself
as it's an internal dependency. It was already fixed in the kernel tree
some time ago, so it should be correct with a recent version. If you
are using an old version you can either update or fix it in your
application. So I don't think we should carry this work-around
ourselves in DPDK, as we'll end up overlinking when using fixed libbpf
versions.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi