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.
The real root-cause of this issue is that the DPDK libraries need to be duplicated in the linker command when doing static linking, due to the behaviour of pkg-config, but since that behaviour cannot be easily changed, this is a simple workaround to avoid problems. Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> --- V2: expand commit log to explain that pkg-config behaviour of part of the problem. --- buildtools/pkg-config/meson.build | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/buildtools/pkg-config/meson.build b/buildtools/pkg-config/meson.build index e043c5ee1..5c1e31c4d 100644 --- a/buildtools/pkg-config/meson.build +++ b/buildtools/pkg-config/meson.build @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Use libdpdk.pc instead of this file to query DPDK compile/link arguments''', version: meson.project_version(), subdirs: [get_option('include_subdir_arch'), '.'], extra_cflags: pkg_extra_cflags, - libraries: dpdk_libraries, + libraries: ['-Wl,--as-needed'] + dpdk_libraries, libraries_private: dpdk_extra_ldflags) pkg.generate(name: 'DPDK', # main DPDK pkgconfig file -- 2.20.1