On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 9:09 AM Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrha...@canonical.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 6:02 PM Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2019-08-29 at 16:34 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 05:30:03PM +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > > > > A while ago telemetry was added in 57ae0ec6 and it also added as- > > > > needed > > > > to config/meson.build. This seems no more needed these days as due > > > > to other > > > > build changes the ordering in buildlogs is: > > > > [...] -lrte_telemetry [...] -Wl,--no-as-needed [...] > > > > Which means telemetry no more benefits from --no-as-needed anyway. > > > > > > > > Overlinking problems get triggered by the meson generated pkgconfig > > > > which > > > > will have: > > > > [...] -Wl,--no-as-needed <somelibsusedbydpdk> > > > > This will overlink <somelibs> and in addition anything that follows > > > > as it also doesn't wrap back to --as-needed. So if a projects > > > > includes > > > > dpdk libs + <other> it will also consider <other> with --no-as- > > > > needed. > > > > > > > > Fixes: > > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpdk/+bug/1841759 > > > > > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt < > > > > christian.ehrha...@canonical.com > > > > > > > > > Acked-by: Luca Boccassi < > > > > bl...@debian.org > > > > > > > > > --- > > > > config/meson.build | 1 - > > > > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) > > > > > > > > diff --git a/config/meson.build b/config/meson.build > > > > index 2bafea530..a27f731f8 100644 > > > > --- a/config/meson.build > > > > +++ b/config/meson.build > > > > @@ -94,7 +94,6 @@ dpdk_conf.set('RTE_TOOLCHAIN_' + > > > > toolchain.to_upper(), 1) > > > > dpdk_conf.set('RTE_ARCH_64', cc.sizeof('void *') == 8) > > > > > > > > add_project_link_arguments('-Wl,--no-as-needed', language: 'c') > > > > -dpdk_extra_ldflags += '-Wl,--no-as-needed' > > > > > > > > > > This seems strange to me. What is it about linking the dpdk apps that > > > require the argument, but makes it safe for non-builtin apps to avoid > > > having the arg? > > > > We've been wondering about that for a while :-) It also seems to be not > > reproducible on Ubuntu 18.04/gcc 7.4. > > > > Can the verbose linking log be shared here, so that we can have a look > > at where no-as-needed lands? Might provide some clue > > That would be the verbose linking log of the Travis CI run right? > I currently have no idea which knob to turn to get this :-/ > > Having it accepted in upstream would make it more easy to fix this in > the soon to be released Ubuntu 19.10. > Is there a path to consider taking this fix as-is and continue the > debug/discussion how the removal of the second line can even cause the > symptoms that we have seen later?
re-ping for the above ^^ > Or is everyone afraid that we then will not continue on it at all? > > > > -- > > Kind regards, > > Luca Boccassi > > > > -- > Christian Ehrhardt > Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server > Canonical Ltd -- Christian Ehrhardt Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server Canonical Ltd
