On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 08:57:53PM +0200, Morten Brørup wrote: > > From: Bruce Richardson [mailto:bruce.richard...@intel.com] > > Sent: Monday, 29 August 2022 17.19 > > To: dev@dpdk.org > > Cc: Bruce Richardson > > Subject: [RFC PATCH 1/3] os: begin separating some OS compatibility > > from EAL > > > > Some library functionality we may want ahead of EAL build depends upon > > some OS-specific functionality, so we create a new lib for that to be > > built separately. For now, just includes fnmatch function for windows. > > The description given in patch 0/3 mentions that this causes a circular > dependency between the EAL and Log libraries. You should mention that here > too. Until I re-read that, I didn't understand the need to move fnmatch() out > of the EAL library - I was even sidetracking wildly, considering if it had to > do with needing it on the host computer (for some host compiler checks). >
Sorry about that! :-) > FYI, and not important: fnmatch() is a C library function (man 3), not a > System call (man 2). But obviously still O/S specific, since it is not > included with the C library for Windows. > Interesting, but as you say, it doesn't actually affect this patch. /Bruce
