2017-01-31 11:59, Ferruh Yigit: > During app build with static library, some libraries wrapped with > --whole-archive compiler flag. > > Wrapped libraries are mainly PMD libraries, this is required because PMD > APIs not directly called but run through callbacks registered via > constructor functions. > > Also some set of libraries, depends to the PMD libraries needs this, > because of same reason.
All the libraries used by a plugin (any driver) must be in --whole-archive to ensure that every symbols will be available for the plugin. This should be explained in this patch (verbatim copy allowed). > But other libraries can be out of this flag, and this saves some size in > final binary. [...] > +_LDLIBS-$(CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_TIMER) += -lrte_timer > +_LDLIBS-$(CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_EFD) += -lrte_efd > +_LDLIBS-$(CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_CFGFILE) += -lrte_cfgfile > + > _LDLIBS-y += --whole-archive Yes we can move these libraries out of --whole-archive as they are not used by any driver. Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monja...@6wind.com>
