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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mk: fix scope of disabling AVX512F support
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 20:53:34 +0000
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On 12/19/2018 8:28 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 19/12/2018 21:20, Ferruh Yigit:
>> On 12/19/2018 7:58 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>>> 19/12/2018 20:29, Ferruh Yigit:
>>>> AVX512 was disabled for GCC because of Bugzilla issue 97 [1],
>>>> the GCC defect submitted for the issue [2] highlighted that this is
>>>> a known binutils version 2.30 issue.
>>>>
>>>> Narrowed the scope of no-avx512 to the this specific binutils version.
>>> [...]
>>>>  # disable AVX512F support of gcc as a workaround for Bug 97
>>>>  ifeq ($(CONFIG_RTE_TOOLCHAIN_GCC),y)
>>>> +ifneq ($(filter 2.30%,$(LD_VERSION)),)
>>>>  MACHINE_CFLAGS += -mno-avx512f
>>>
>>> I think we should print a warning here.
>>> There is a function $(warning) or $(info) for such case.
>>
>> I can add but it prints warning per component, so it prints a lot.
> 
> I think we can choose to print only when compiling EAL
> by checking $(findstring eal,$(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST)))

Thanks for hint, I will use it.

> 
> One more comment: it would be good to have this fix with meson too.

Agreed, only I am not quite sure how to fix it in meson.