On 6/10/2016 2:19 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > From "man ld": > Using this option has a significant performance cost. > It is best to use it only when there are unavoidable > circular references between two or more archives. > > Remove the option since it does not seem necessary. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
To remove this, I think we should order libraries in a way: pmd -> librte -> external libraries. Than we can remove --whole-archive too. And perhaps keep it still to wrap around librte_eal and librte_mempool, which still has cyclic dependencies.
