Re: [PATCH dpdk v2 2/2] meson: add drivers to dynamic libraries

["Robin Jarry" <rjarry@redhat.com>]

Bruce Richardson, Oct 15, 2026 at 14:18:
> Yes, static builds link in everything, and that was always the design since
> static builds don't load drivers at runtime, everything has to be linked
> into the final object.
>
> Personally, I don't that strongly object to the change because - as you
> point out - the as-needed flag should prevent overlinking. If we do this,
> I'd suggest making both drivers and libs full lists, rather than
> distinguishing between drivers with public headers and those without,
> because that should allow us to simplify our package config files. Right
> now we have this strange split into two .pc files, as that was the only way
> I could find to get correct behaviour for both static and shared builds,
> where static included everything and shared was libs only. [IIRC, the
> complication was that, when you pass --static to pkg-config, the extra link
> args from the pc file get listed *after* the normal libs, while they need to get
> listed *before* in order to satisfy the dependencies drivers have on the
> libs]

Thanks. I will see what I can do.