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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PACTH v3 2/2] mlx4: fix shared library dependency
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 00:23:34 +0200
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2015-07-31 15:14, Nelio Laranjeiro:
> librte_pmd_mlx4.so needs to be linked with libibverbs otherwise, the PMD is
> not able to open Mellanox devices and the following message is printed by
> testpmd at startup
> "librte_pmd_mlx4: cannot access device, is mlx4_ib loaded?".
> 
> Applications dependency on libibverbs are moved to be only valid in static
> mode, in shared mode, applications do not depend on it anymore,
> librte_pmd_mlx4.so keeps this dependency and thus is linked with libibverbs.
> 
> MLX4 cannot be supported in combined shared library because there is no clean
> way of adding -libverbs to the combined library.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
> Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>

> +$(info MLX4: Not supported in a combined shared library)
> +all:
> +	false
changed to;
all:
	@echo 'MLX4: Not supported in a combined shared library'
	@false

Applied, thanks