30/06/2020 16:14, Bruce Richardson: > 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.
It deserves to give a more detailed explanation here.
