From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bruce Richardson Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] config: add static linkage of mlx dependency Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 09:37:39 +0000 Message-ID: <20190109093738.GB2940@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> References: <20190109020524.3633-1-thomas@monjalon.net> <20190109020524.3633-2-thomas@monjalon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: yskoh@mellanox.com, shahafs@mellanox.com, dev@dpdk.org, ferruh.yigit@intel.com To: Thomas Monjalon Return-path: Received: from mga14.intel.com (mga14.intel.com [192.55.52.115]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 393261B101 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2019 10:37:44 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190109020524.3633-2-thomas@monjalon.net> List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 03:05:24AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > The libraries provided by rdma-core may be statically linked > if enabling CONFIG_RTE_IBVERBS_LINK_STATIC in the make-based build. > If CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_SHARED_LIB is disabled, > the applications will embed the mlx PMDs with ibverbs and the mlx libraries. > If CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_SHARED_LIB is enabled, > the mlx PMDs will embed ibverbs and the mlx libraries. > > Support with meson may be added later. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon > --- Just to clarify - if there is a shared library build, the idea is to actually link in the dependent .a files directly into the .so, rather than having the driver .so's track their dependency on the other .so files? What is the prospective use-case for this, and can it cause problems? I thought it was generally not advisable to be linking in static libraries into shared libraries. /Bruce