> >>> What is not clear to me is motivation to use weak here instead of simply > using >CONFIG_RTE_I40E_INC_VECTOR > >>> macro to exclude stubs in i40e_rxtx.c. It will make library smaller and > >>> avoid > issues like this one > >>> which are quite hard to troubleshoot. > >> Since this issue seen in fd.io, I didn't investigated more, but I don't > >> want to clock your valid question, this is an attempt to resurrect the > >> question ... > > Hi, > > > > We are having exactly the same problem. For us the aforementioned > workaround doesn't seem to work and vector mode is always disabled with the > i40e drivers. If I modify i40e_rxtx.c and exclude the stub functions using > CONFIG_RTE_I40E_INC_VECTOR everything works as expected. > > > > We are building DPDK with the CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_COMBINE_LIBS option > enabled and link DPDK library to our application. > > > > Any other ideas how this could be fixed? > > > > Regards, > > Matias > > > > So you have tried to link a combined static lib with --whole-archive > -ldpdk --no-whole-archive and still get the wrong/weak function definition? > > Sergio
I actually just managed to fix the problem. In our case I had to add '-Wl,--whole-archive,-ldpdk,--no-whole-archive' to the end of AM_LDFLAGS. -Matias