Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2] build: avoid --as-needed as it causes overlinking

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

12/09/2019 15:43, Christian Ehrhardt:
> > On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 11:18 AM Bruce Richardson
> > <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 9:09 AM Christian Ehrhardt
> > > > <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> wrote:
> > > > > > On Thu, 2019-08-29 at 16:34 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 05:30:03PM +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> > > > > > > > --- a/config/meson.build
> > > > > > > > +++ b/config/meson.build
> > > > > > > >  add_project_link_arguments('-Wl,--no-as-needed', language: 'c')
> > > > > > > > -dpdk_extra_ldflags += '-Wl,--no-as-needed'
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > This seems strange to me. What is it about linking the dpdk apps that
> > > > > > > require the argument, but makes it safe for non-builtin apps to avoid
> > > > > > > having the arg?
[...]
> > > > > Having it accepted in upstream would make it more easy to fix this in
> > > > > the soon to be released Ubuntu 19.10.
> > > > > Is there a path to consider taking this fix as-is and continue the
> > > > > debug/discussion how the removal of the second line can even cause the
> > > > > symptoms that we have seen later?
> > >
> > > I'm ok with what you propose above.
[...]
> And actually 18.11 stable would make sense as well IMHO.
> Could one who commits could add that as:
> Fixes: 57ae0ec62620 ("build: add dependency on telemetry to apps with meson")

+Cc stable@dpdk.org in the commit log

Applied, thanks
Title reduced to "avoid overlinking" because --as-needed mention looks wrong.

Please continue the investigation to remove
the other line "add_project_link_arguments()".