Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] eal: fix shared lib mode detection

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 04:14:14PM +0100, Timothy Redaelli wrote:
> Commit 06c7871dde01 ("eal: restrict default plugin path to shared lib mode")
> introduced a check that enabled shared lib mode when librte_eal.so can
> be loaded, but it can't work, at least, on Fedora/CentOS/RHEL since .so
> symlinks are not installed when you install dpdk package, but only when
> you install dpdk-devel package.
> 
> This commit uses librte_eal.so.ABI_VERSION to check for shared lib,
> since it exists on any linux distributions.
> 
> See Fedora Packaging Guidelines for more informations:
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_devel_packages
> 
> Fixes: 06c7871dde01 ("eal: restrict default plugin path to shared lib mode")
> Cc: bruce.richardson@intel.com
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> Signed-off-by: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c | 3 ++-
>  lib/librte_eal/common/meson.build          | 2 ++
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
> index fc6f0cea93..e6f77ad217 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
> @@ -503,7 +503,8 @@ eal_plugins_init(void)
>  	 * (Using dlopen with NOLOAD flag on EAL, will return NULL if the EAL
>  	 * shared library is not already loaded i.e. it's statically linked.)
>  	 */
> -	if (dlopen("librte_eal.so", RTLD_LAZY | RTLD_NOLOAD) != NULL &&
> +	if (dlopen("librte_eal.so."ABI_VERSION, RTLD_LAZY | RTLD_NOLOAD)
> +			!= NULL &&

Since we are not so strict on the 80-char lines, I think I'd keep the
!= NULL on the original line to improve readability.

>  			*default_solib_dir != '\0' &&
>  			stat(default_solib_dir, &sb) == 0 &&
>  			S_ISDIR(sb.st_mode))
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/meson.build b/lib/librte_eal/common/meson.build
> index 9f32262450..39abf7a0a4 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/meson.build
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/meson.build
> @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
>  
>  includes += include_directories('.')
>  
> +cflags += [ '-DABI_VERSION="@0@"'.format(abi_version) ]
> +
>  if is_windows
>  	sources += files(
>  		'eal_common_bus.c',
> -- 

Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>