Hi all, 2014-07-24 22:55, Antti Kantee: > On 24/07/14 07:59, Matthew Hall wrote: > > I ran into some weird symbol conflicts between system netinet/in.h and DPDK > > rte_ip.h. They have a lot of duplicated definitions for stuff like > > IPPROTO_IP > > and so on. This breaks when you want to use inet_pton from arpa/inet.h, > > because it includes netinet/in.h to define struct in_addr. [...] > Again, I recommend steering away from any tightrope approaches that > "know" which types are non-conflicting, or pick out half-and-half from > the host and IP stack. "Do, or do not, there is no half-and-half"
The general problem here is that DPDK is conflicting with libc. So the obvious question would be: "why DPDK needs to redefine libc stuff"? I don't see any obvious answer since bare metal is planned to be removed. (see http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2014-June/003868.html) Objections? -- Thomas
