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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org>
To: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox•net>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 master] bpf: unbreak libelf linkage for bpf obj loader
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 16:41:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170810164131.3bf0ef89@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <598C1CDD.3090604@iogearbox.net>

On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 10:44:13 +0200
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox•net> wrote:

> On 08/10/2017 02:35 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:15:41 +0200
> > Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox•net> wrote:
> >  
> >> Commit 69fed534a533 ("change how Config is used in Makefile's") moved
> >> HAVE_MNL specific CFLAGS/LDLIBS for building with libmnl out of the
> >> top level Makefile into sub-Makefiles. However, it also removed the
> >> HAVE_ELF specific CFLAGS/LDLIBS entirely, which breaks the BPF object
> >> loader for tc and ip with "No ELF library support compiled in." despite
> >> having libelf detected in configure script. Fix it similarly as in
> >> 69fed534a533 for HAVE_ELF.
> >>
> >> Fixes: 69fed534a533 ("change how Config is used in Makefile's")
> >> Reported-by: Jeffrey Panneman <jeffrey.panneman@tno•nl>
> >> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox•net>  
> >
> > Thanks, but I am thinking maybe a better solution long term would be to
> > move all the package specific stuff into the generated Config file.
> >
> > That way only the generation shell script would have to change.
> >
> > Also, all the flags should probably be using pkg-config to get the values.  
> 
> Sure, sounds all good, for the time being, I would like to have
> that breakage undone though, so users can work with loading BPF
> programs again on -master.
> 
> Thanks,
> Daniel

Agree. I will merge this for master, and work on better config management
in net-next.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-10 23:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-09 22:15 [PATCH iproute2 master] bpf: unbreak libelf linkage for bpf obj loader Daniel Borkmann
2017-08-10  0:35 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-08-10  8:44   ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-08-10 23:41     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2017-08-11  8:56       ` Daniel Borkmann

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