From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Gregory Etelson <getelson@nvidia.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, matan@nvidia.com, rasland@nvidia.com,
thomas@monjalon.net, bluca@debian.org, david.marchand@redhat.com,
christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com, ktraynor@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] build: add pkg-config validation
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 12:11:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201102121123.GA1440@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201102064548.9291-1-getelson@nvidia.com>
On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 08:45:48AM +0200, Gregory Etelson wrote:
> DPDK relies on pkg-config(1) to provide correct parameters for
> compiler and linker used in application build.
> Inaccurate build parameters, produced by pkg-config from DPDK .pc
> files could fail application build or cause unpredicted results
> during application runtime.
>
> This patch validates host pkg-config utility and notifies about
> known issues.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gregory Etelson <getelson@nvidia.com>
> ---
> buildtools/pkg-config/meson.build | 11 ++++++
> buildtools/pkg-config/pkgconfig-validate.sh | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++
> doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst | 5 +++
> 3 files changed, 56 insertions(+)
> create mode 100755 buildtools/pkg-config/pkgconfig-validate.sh
>
> diff --git a/buildtools/pkg-config/meson.build b/buildtools/pkg-config/meson.build
> index 5f19304289..4f907d7638 100644
> --- a/buildtools/pkg-config/meson.build
> +++ b/buildtools/pkg-config/meson.build
> @@ -53,3 +53,14 @@ This is required for a number of static inline functions in the public headers.'
> # For static linking with dependencies as shared libraries,
> # the internal static libraries must be flagged explicitly.
> run_command(py3, 'set-static-linker-flags.py', check: true)
> +
> +pkgconf = find_program('pkg-config', 'pkgconf', required: false)
> +if (pkgconf.found())
> + cmd = run_command('./pkgconfig-validate.sh', pkgconf.path(),
> + check:false)
> + if cmd.returncode() != 0
> + version = run_command(pkgconf, '--version')
> + warning('invalid pkg-config version @0@'.format(
> + version.stdout().strip()))
> + endif
> +endif
> diff --git a/buildtools/pkg-config/pkgconfig-validate.sh b/buildtools/pkg-config/pkgconfig-validate.sh
> new file mode 100755
> index 0000000000..61ddd6d5a3
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/buildtools/pkg-config/pkgconfig-validate.sh
> @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
> +#! /bin/sh
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
> +
> +# Statically linked private DPDK objects of form
> +# -l:file.a must be positionned between --whole-archive … --no-whole-archive
> +# linker parameters.
> +# Old pkg-config versions misplace --no-whole-archive parameter and put it
> +# next to --whole-archive.
> +test1_static_libs_order () {
> + PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}:$pc_dir" \
Should the $pc_dir not be put first, in case there are older .pc files
around for DPDK?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-02 12:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-29 9:16 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Gregory Etelson
2020-11-01 10:01 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-11-01 12:06 ` Gregory Etelson
2020-11-02 6:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Gregory Etelson
2020-11-02 12:11 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2020-11-02 19:39 ` Gregory Etelson
2020-11-02 19:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Gregory Etelson
2020-11-03 10:09 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-11-04 8:38 ` Gregory Etelson
2020-11-05 12:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Gregory Etelson
2020-11-05 13:17 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-11-13 13:38 ` David Marchand
2020-11-13 15:16 ` Gregory Etelson
2020-11-13 15:32 ` David Marchand
2020-11-17 18:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: notify bug in pkg-config v0.27 Gregory Etelson
2020-11-26 15:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/1] doc: add pkg-config requirement for applications Thomas Monjalon
2020-11-26 16:24 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-11-26 16:38 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-11-26 16:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 " Thomas Monjalon
2020-11-26 16:46 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-11-27 0:59 ` Thomas Monjalon
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