Re: [PATCH] net/sxe2: fix build when optional libraries are disabled

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2026 at 10:55:31AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> This was found by AI sandbox build when doing other fixes
> to EAL. The sxe2 driver was doing handrolled meson to pick
> up AVX which fails if security library not present.
> 
> Fix build failure when building with
> "meson setup build -Denable_libs=eal":
> 
>   drivers/net/sxe2/meson.build:37:24: ERROR:
>   Unknown variable name "static_rte_security".
> 
> Use sources_avx2 and sources_avx512 instead of hand-rolled
> static libraries.
> 
> Fixes: 59d866861188 ("net/sxe2: add AVX2 Rx and Tx")
> Fixes: 0af0bdcdcf83 ("net/sxe2: add AVX512 Rx and Tx")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> ---
>  drivers/net/sxe2/meson.build | 35 ++---------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/sxe2/meson.build b/drivers/net/sxe2/meson.build
> index d653d071a9..409e3be248 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/sxe2/meson.build
> +++ b/drivers/net/sxe2/meson.build
> @@ -15,39 +15,8 @@ includes += include_directories('../../common/sxe2')
>  
>  if arch_subdir == 'x86'
>          sources += files('sxe2_txrx_vec_sse.c')
> -
> -        sxe2_avx512_cpu_support =(
> -                cc.get_define('__AVX512F__', args: machine_args) != '' and
> -                cc.get_define('__AVX512BW__', args: machine_args) != '')
> -
> -        sxe2_avx512_cc_support = (
> -                not machine_args.contains('-mno-avx512f') and
> -                cc.has_argument('-mavx512f') and
> -                cc.has_argument('-mavx512bw'))
> -
> -        if sxe2_avx512_cpu_support == true or sxe2_avx512_cc_support == true
> -                cflags += ['-DCC_AVX512_SUPPORT']
> -                avx512_args = [cflags, '-mavx512f', '-mavx512bw']
> -                if cc.has_argument('-march=skylake-avx512')
> -                        avx512_args += '-march=skylake-avx512'
> -                endif
> -                sxe2_avx512_lib = static_library('sxe2_avx512_lib', 'sxe2_txrx_vec_avx512.c',
> -                        dependencies: [static_rte_ethdev,
> -                        static_rte_kvargs, static_rte_hash,
> -                        static_rte_security, static_rte_cryptodev, static_rte_bus_pci],
> -                        include_directories: includes,
> -                        c_args: avx512_args)
> -                objs += sxe2_avx512_lib.extract_objects('sxe2_txrx_vec_avx512.c')
> -        endif
> -        sxe2_avx2_lib = static_library('sxe2_avx2_lib',
> -                'sxe2_txrx_vec_avx2.c',
> -                dependencies: [static_rte_ethdev,
> -                        static_rte_kvargs, static_rte_hash,
> -                        static_rte_security, static_rte_cryptodev,
> -                        static_rte_bus_pci],
> -                include_directories: includes,
> -                c_args: [cflags, '-mavx2'])
> -        objs += sxe2_avx2_lib.extract_objects('sxe2_txrx_vec_avx2.c')
> +        sources_avx2 += files('sxe2_txrx_vec_avx2.c')
> +        sources_avx512 += files('sxe2_txrx_vec_avx512.c')
>  elif arch_subdir == 'arm'
>          sources += files('sxe2_txrx_vec_neon.c')
>  endif
> -- 
This looks correct to me. We should be using the standard variables for
these instruction-specific files rather than hand-rolling.

Reviewed-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>