Re: [PATCH] eal/linux: fix HPET symbols export

Ben Magistro
2026-03-05T13:50:35Z

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We know we are behind on updating our usage of DPDK so this might just help
nudge that along. Appreciate the heads up though!

Cheers

On Thu, Mar 5, 2026 at 8:43 AM David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Thu, 5 Mar 2026 at 14:21, Ben Magistro <koncept1@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Just now getting to cleaning up my mailing list folder and came across
> this so apologize for reopening an older thread. We will likely appreciate
> the patch a great deal as we needed to switch to lld form clang (this past
> week). When we made this switch (had some size related issues with
> sanitizer builds in our app with ld) lld definitely complained about the
> symbols not being defined.
> >
> > I don't have more of the output saved from when we found this, but did
> save off these lines while discussing with the team.
> >
> > ld.lld: error: version script assignment of 'DPDK_23' to symbol
> 'rte_eal_hpet_init' failed: symbol not defined
> > ld.lld: error: version script assignment of 'DPDK_23' to symbol
> 'rte_get_hpet_cycles' failed: symbol not defined
> > ld.lld: error: version script assignment of 'DPDK_23' to symbol
> 'rte_get_hpet_hz' failed: symbol not defined
>
> .map files were static until v25.07 and you seem to use a version
> prior to 23.11 LTS.
> The dynamic generation of .map has not been backported, so
> unfortunately this current patch will not help in your case.
>
>
> --
> David Marchand
>
>

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