Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix build issues with CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_COMBINE_LIBS=y

[Matthew Hall <mhall-Hv3ogNYU3JfZZajBQzqCxQ@public.gmane.org>]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 03:15:46PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> With a single archive, you get everything you build even if you don't need 
> it.

Right, I was trying to avoid that for people who specifically didn't want it, 
if there are any... I'm not one of them.

> But presumably if you're building a static binary, you're
> likely building the dpdk as well and can configure optional libraries out of the
> build.  Separate libraries are more a need for downstream
> distributors/packagers, who use dynamic shared objects anyway.

Yeah, I was thinking it'd be nice if the downstream packagers could get a 
global '.a' and per-sublib '.a' as well. So that one dpdk package could be 
used by a client app which wanted everything, or only wanted portions.

> Backward compatibilty?  the DPDK doesn't yet provide run time compatibility
> between releases (something I've been trying to change).  Nobody provides
> compile time compatibility.  To do so would require fixing API's permenently.

Agreed. I was just advocating to avoid worsening the already existent issues. 
;)

Matthew.