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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix build issues with
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Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 11:13:07 -0700
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On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 10:27:30AM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> The proposal is to always build single (combined) lib AND to build separated
> libs in case of shared libraries.
> For static library: only one single (combined) static library.

In the static case, this won't be backward compatible for people with existing 
linking, and won't allow people to pick which PMD's to activate without 
recompiling DPDK. If you're OK with that then I don't have an issue. But some 
others may not like it.

Matthew.