On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 06:35:27PM +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 02:05:04PM +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote: > >> Currently openvswitch builds all libraries static only. However, > >> libopenvswitch is linked into nearly all openvswitch executables > >> making it hardly possible to run openvswitch on embedded devices > >> (for example running OpenWrt). > >> > >> Convert openvswitch to use libtool for building its internal libs. > >> This allows "--enable-shared" and "--enable-static" as configure > >> arguments. Default is "--disable-shared" thus keeping the current > >> behavior with the only change that static libs are installed by > >> "make install". > >> > >> Since the openvswitch library interfaces are internal and thus not > >> stable (yet) encode the openvswitch version into the library name: > >> libopenvswitch-2.0.90.so > >> > >> Binary size is reduced to around 1/3 when using shared libs. > > > > I think there's something missing, because when I do "make dist" and > > then try to build from the generated tarball, I get: > > > > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `ovsdb/libovsdb.a', needed by > > `tests/test-ovsdb'. > > Sorry about that :( just didn't notice due to all the rebasing.
No worries, it's really easy to miss in this kind of change (which is why I checked ;-). _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
