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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 17:16:16 +0100
From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
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 Michal Berger <michallinuxstuff@gmail.com>, thomas@monjalon.net
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] buildtools: fix build with meson 0.60
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On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 10:32:39PM +0300, Dmitry Kozlyuk wrote:
> Meson 0.60 switched the format of uninstalled static libraries
> to thin archives, that is, they contain only paths to object files,
> not the files themselves. Files cannot be extracted in this case,
> resulting in build errors:
> 
>     ar: `x' cannot be used on thin archives.
> 
> Handle thin archives when invoking pmdinfogen
> by directly using the files referenced in the archive.
> 
> Bugzilla ID: 836
> Fixes: e6e9730c7066 ("buildtools: support object file extraction for Windows")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Reported-by: Michal Berger <michallinuxstuff@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
> ---
>  buildtools/gen-pmdinfo-cfile.py | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>

Here is an alternative fix that works in my testing, based on my earlier
suggestion:

Regards,
/Bruce

diff --git a/buildtools/gen-pmdinfo-cfile.py b/buildtools/gen-pmdinfo-cfile.py
index 58fe3ad152..5fbd51658a 100644
--- a/buildtools/gen-pmdinfo-cfile.py
+++ b/buildtools/gen-pmdinfo-cfile.py
@@ -9,12 +9,13 @@

 _, tmp_root, ar, archive, output, *pmdinfogen = sys.argv
 with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(dir=tmp_root) as temp:
-    run_ar = lambda command: subprocess.run(
-        [ar, command, os.path.abspath(archive)],
-        stdout=subprocess.PIPE, check=True, cwd=temp
-    )
-    # Don't use "ar p", because its output is corrupted on Windows.
-    run_ar("x")
-    names = run_ar("t").stdout.decode().splitlines()
-    paths = [os.path.join(temp, name) for name in names]
+    paths = []
+    for name in subprocess.run([ar, "t", archive], stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+                               check=True).stdout.decode().splitlines():
+        if os.path.exists(name):
+            paths.append(name)
+        else:
+            subprocess.run([ar, "x", os.path.abspath(archive), name],
+                           check=True, cwd=temp)
+            paths.append(os.path.join(temp, name))
     subprocess.run(pmdinfogen + paths + [output], check=True)