On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 12:34:56PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 29/04/2020 12:08, Bruce Richardson: > > Add the --as-needed linker flag to the DPDK library list in the pkg-config > > file so as to prevent overlinking. Without this flag, when linking > > statically using flags from $(pkg-config --static --libs libdpdk), all DPDK > > drivers and libs were statically linked in, but the binary was also > > requiring all the shared versions be present to run. > > I consider "--as-needed" as a workaround here. > The root issue is that pkg-config does not distinguish clearly > shared and static linkage, right? > Yeah, pretty much. Improved static linking support in pkg-config would really help with all this - and probably make much of this set unnecessary. Unfortunately, how pkg-config works right now is how it works, and a change to support what we want would be a fairly major change in functionality.
/Bruce
