2017-02-16 16:17, Markos Chandras:
> The librte_ethtool library depends on librte_pmd_ixgbe if that
> pmd driver is enabled so we need to link against it when we compile
> the ethtool application. It fixes the following build problem:
>
> /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/6/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld:
> warning: librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.1, needed by /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/
> dpdk-17.02/examples/ethtool/lib/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/lib/
> librte_ethtool.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
> /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/dpdk-17.02/examples/ethtool/lib/
> x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/lib/librte_ethtool.so: undefined reference to
> `rte_pmd_ixgbe_set_vf_rxmode@DPDK_17.02'
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
We may add this line:
Fixes: 077d223e25c3 ("examples/ethtool: use ixgbe public function")
> Cc: Nirmoy Das <n...@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras <mchand...@suse.de>
[...]
> --- a/examples/ethtool/ethtool-app/Makefile
> +++ b/examples/ethtool/ethtool-app/Makefile
> +ifeq ($(CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_IXGBE_PMD),y)
> +LDLIBS += -lrte_pmd_ixgbe
> +endif
Please, could you confirm we can remove the same LDLIBS line from
examples/ethtool/lib/Makefile ?
