Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] avoid libfdt checks adding full paths to pkg-config

[David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 2:39 PM Christian Ehrhardt
<christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> wrote:
>
> The checks for libfdt try dependency() first which would only work if
> a pkg-config would be present but libfdt has none.
> Then it probes for the lib path itself via cc.find_library.
>
> But later it adds the result of either probe to ext_deps which ends up
> in build and also the resulting pkg-config to contain toolchain versioned
> paths in Libs.private like:
>   /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/9/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfdt.so
> which obviously breaks on toolchain updates.
>
> In general libs used multiple times - ipn3ke + ifpga in this case - are
> checked centrally in config/meson.build so move it there and fix the
> adding of dependencies to not use the full file path.
>
> The result is libfdt in pkg-config now showing up as:
>   Libs.private: -pthread -lm -ldl -lnuma -lfdt -lpcap
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> Reviewed-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
> Reviewed-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> ---
>  config/meson.build             | 9 +++++++++
>  drivers/net/ipn3ke/meson.build | 6 +-----
>  drivers/raw/ifpga/meson.build  | 7 +------
>  3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/config/meson.build b/config/meson.build
> index cff8b33dd2..1c8317e750 100644
> --- a/config/meson.build
> +++ b/config/meson.build
> @@ -150,6 +150,15 @@ if numa_dep.found() and cc.has_header('numaif.h')
>         dpdk_extra_ldflags += '-lnuma'
>  endif
>
> +has_libfdt = 0
> +fdt_dep = cc.find_library('libfdt', required: false)
> +if fdt_dep.found() and cc.has_header('fdt.h')
> +       dpdk_conf.set10('RTE_HAS_LIBFDT', true)
> +       has_libfdt = 1
> +       add_project_link_arguments('-lfdt', language: 'c')
> +       dpdk_extra_ldflags += '-lfdt'
> +endif
> +
>  # check for libbsd
>  libbsd = dependency('libbsd', required: false)
>  if libbsd.found()
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ipn3ke/meson.build b/drivers/net/ipn3ke/meson.build
> index ec9cb7daf0..83611cfead 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ipn3ke/meson.build
> +++ b/drivers/net/ipn3ke/meson.build
> @@ -9,11 +9,7 @@
>  #  rte_eth_switch_domain_free()
>  #
>
> -dep = dependency('libfdt', required: false)
> -if not dep.found()
> -       dep = cc.find_library('libfdt', required: false)
> -endif
> -if not dep.found()
> +if not has_libfdt

"not" expects a boolean, this can be seen in Travis and OBS builds for
Debian (at least 10 and Next).

OVS robot travis:
https://travis-ci.com/github/ovsrobot/dpdk/jobs/380310104#L721

My OBS:
[  143s] Compiler for C supports arguments -mavx2: YES (cached)
[  143s] Message: drivers/net/ice: Defining dependency "pmd_ice"
[  143s] Message: drivers/net/igc: Defining dependency "pmd_igc"
[  143s]
[  143s] ../drivers/net/ipn3ke/meson.build:12:7: ERROR: Argument to
"not" is not a boolean.
[  143s] dh_auto_configure: error: cd obj-x86_64-linux-gnu &&
LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 meson .. --wrap-mode=nodownload --buildtype=plain
--prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
--libdir=lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --libexecdir=lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
--includedir=include/dpdk -Dper_library_versions=false
-Dinclude_subdir_arch=../x86_64-linux-gnu/dpdk -Dmachine=default
-Dkernel_dir=/lib/modules/5.7.0-3-amd64 -Denable_kmods=true returned
exit code 1
[  143s] make[2]: *** [debian/rules:114: override_dh_auto_configure] Error 25
[  143s] make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/packages/BUILD'
[  143s] make[1]: *** [debian/rules:92: build] Error 2
[  143s] make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/packages/BUILD'
[  143s] make: *** [debian/rules:96: binary] Error 2


-- 
David Marchand