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From: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
Subject: Re: error in testpmd when CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_SHARED_LIB=y
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 12:11:58 +0530
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On Thursday 13 April 2017 01:25 AM, Olivier MATZ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:31:56 +0200
> Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> wrote:
>
>> 2017-04-12 11:31, Richardson, Bruce:
>>>

[...]

>>
>> I think the default mempool could be linked.
>> I don't know how easy it is to transform
>> 	CONFIG_RTE_MBUF_DEFAULT_MEMPOOL_OPS="ring_mp_mc"
>> into
>> 	-lrte_mempool_ring
>>
>> Anyone for a patch?
>
> This is the default mempool for the mbufs, selected when using the
> function rte_pktmbuf_pool_create().
>
> For non-mbuf mempools, the default is to use the ring handler (see
> in rte_mempool_create()).
>
> So if we want option 2-, it looks that moving this line in rte.app.mk
> above, outside the if (shared build), would do the job:
>
> _LDLIBS-$(CONFIG_RTE_DRIVER_MEMPOOL_RING)   += -lrte_mempool_ring
>
> I think both 2- and 3- are acceptable. People using the shared library
> mode should already provide all the .so in a known location, so that
> they are loaded by default. This is needed for the PMDs for instance.
>

I can send the patch;
before that, should this fact, that ring is included by default, is to 
be documented somewhere?

-
Shreyansh