Hi, I'm reviving this old thread. My understanding is that everybody prefer the linker script than the current combined library which had neither symbol versioning nor library dependency informations.
Comments below: 2015-11-24 16:31, Panu Matilainen: > The physically linked-together combined library has been an increasing > source of problems, as was predicted when library and symbol versioning > was introduced. Replace the complex and fragile construction with a > simple linker script which achieves the same without all the problems, > remove the related kludges from eg mlx drivers. > > Since creating the linker script is practically zero cost, remove the > config option and just create it always. [...] > --- /dev/null > +++ b/mk/rte.combinedlib.mk > @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ > +# BSD LICENSE > +# > +# Copyright(c) 2010-2015 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. > +# All rights reserved. > +# > +# Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without > +# modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions > +# are met: > +# > +# * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright > +# notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. > +# * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright > +# notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in > +# the documentation and/or other materials provided with the > +# distribution. > +# * Neither the name of Intel Corporation nor the names of its > +# contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived > +# from this software without specific prior written permission. Why this header, Panu? I think you should write your own copyright, and assume the linker script ;) It needs to be rebased and some docs comments must be removed or updated. I'll send a v2.
