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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mk: fix acl library static linking
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 13:38:11 +0200
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2016-06-30 12:10, Sergio Gonzalez Monroy:
> Since below commit, ACL library is outside the scope of --whole-archive
> and ACL autotest fails.
> 
>   RTE>>acl_autotest
>   ACL: allocation of 25166728 bytes on socket 9 for ACL_acl_ctx failed
>   ACL: rte_acl_add_rules(acl_ctx): rule #1 is invalid
>   Line 1584: SSE classify with zero categories failed!
>   Test Failed
> 
> This is the result of the linker picking weak over non-weak functions.
> 
> Fixes: 95dc3c3cf31c ("mk: reduce scope of whole-archive static linking")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com>

Please could you detail which symbol is missing?

Does it need to be commented in rte.app.mk?
The other libs are in whole-archive to support dlopen of drivers.
But the problem here is not because of a driver use.