[dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC] Update/Improve build system

2014-11-01 Thread Neil Horman
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 10:45:07AM +, Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio wrote: > > From: Matthew Hall [mailto:mhall at mhcomputing.net] > > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 8:50 PM > > > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 09:18:23AM +, Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio wrote: > > > I would say that D) is a good balanc

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC] Update/Improve build system

2014-10-31 Thread Matthew Hall
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 10:45:07AM +, Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio wrote: > That flow work still presents some issues as they may be features that are > incompatible between each other and would need to be in different DPDK > copies. > > Regards, > Sergio So I think the two questions are: 1) Wi

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC] Update/Improve build system

2014-10-31 Thread Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio
> From: Matthew Hall [mailto:mhall at mhcomputing.net] > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 8:50 PM > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 09:18:23AM +, Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio wrote: > > I would say that D) is a good balance, although not being the simplest. > > A, or D. Depending on things such as, "If

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC] Update/Improve build system

2014-10-30 Thread Matthew Hall
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 09:18:23AM +, Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio wrote: > I would say that D) is a good balance, although not being the simplest. A, or D. Depending on things such as, "If you run the DPDK on Random Platform X," where X could be something like Power CPUs or other weird stuff, wil

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC] Update/Improve build system

2014-10-30 Thread Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio
Hi, Apologies for the previous email format, I seems like I misconfigured something on my email-client. In case people find it annoying to read with extra line spaces, here is the RFC with fixed formatting: I would like to propose an update on the way the libraries are being built on DPDK. M

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC] Update/Improve build system

2014-10-30 Thread Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio
Hi, I would like to propose an update on the way the libraries are being built on DPDK. Motivation/Issues: - No agreement on libraries to build (separated, combined, different grouping). - People having issues building their applications cannot rely on the information given by ldd when us