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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] mk: Remove combined library and
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On 13/03/2015 16:07, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:27:58 +0000
> Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com> wrote:
>
>> Remove CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_COMBINE_LIBS and CONFIG_RTE_LIBNAME.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com>
>> ---
> NAK. The combined library is good and useful for those who want simplicity
> and build with static library.
>
> It is not clear what you are trying to solve.
As I mentioned in other post, you can merge multiple archives into a 
single/combined one pretty easily.

I think we can agree that it is not useful for shared libraries, and 
with versioning in place, combined shared
library will be broken the moment we version an API.

I don't think we need build config  options just for the combined static 
library when we can achieve the
same result with a simple script post build.

Sergio