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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: symbol conflicts between netinet/in.h, arpa/inet.h, and rte_ip.h
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:43:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1432797.FfhxlLyX1P@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53D18EFF.8080804-jIVgJlTk8bs@public.gmane.org>

Hi all,

2014-07-24 22:55, Antti Kantee:
> On 24/07/14 07:59, Matthew Hall wrote:
> > I ran into some weird symbol conflicts between system netinet/in.h and DPDK
> > rte_ip.h. They have a lot of duplicated definitions for stuff like IPPROTO_IP
> > and so on. This breaks when you want to use inet_pton from arpa/inet.h,
> > because it includes netinet/in.h to define struct in_addr.
[...]
> Again, I recommend steering away from any tightrope approaches that 
> "know" which types are non-conflicting, or pick out half-and-half from 
> the host and IP stack.  "Do, or do not, there is no half-and-half"

The general problem here is that DPDK is conflicting with libc.
So the obvious question would be: "why DPDK needs to redefine libc stuff"?
I don't see any obvious answer since bare metal is planned to be removed.
(see http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2014-June/003868.html)

Objections?

-- 
Thomas

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-25 10:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-24  7:59 symbol conflicts between netinet/in.h, arpa/inet.h, and rte_ip.h Matthew Hall
     [not found] ` <20140724075918.GA21277-Hv3ogNYU3JfZZajBQzqCxQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-07-24 15:43   ` Niraj Sharma (nirajsha)
2014-07-24 22:55   ` Antti Kantee
     [not found]     ` <53D18EFF.8080804-jIVgJlTk8bs@public.gmane.org>
2014-07-24 23:03       ` Matthew Hall
2014-07-25  1:12       ` Wu, Jingjing
     [not found]         ` <9BB6961774997848B5B42BEC655768F8AB222F-0J0gbvR4kTg/UvCtAeCM4rfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2014-07-25  4:56           ` Matthew Hall
     [not found]             ` <b45e77f2-df66-4973-ab40-bde62270c47d-2ueSQiBKiTY7tOexoI0I+QC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
2014-07-25 10:33               ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2014-07-25 10:43       ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2014-07-25 14:40         ` Antti Kantee
     [not found]           ` <53D26C42.3060907-jIVgJlTk8bs@public.gmane.org>
2014-07-25 14:44             ` Matthew Hall

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