On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 02:05:04PM +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote: >> Currently openvswitch builds all libraries static only. However, >> libopenvswitch is linked into nearly all openvswitch executables >> making it hardly possible to run openvswitch on embedded devices >> (for example running OpenWrt). >> >> Convert openvswitch to use libtool for building its internal libs. >> This allows "--enable-shared" and "--enable-static" as configure >> arguments. Default is "--disable-shared" thus keeping the current >> behavior with the only change that static libs are installed by >> "make install". >> >> Since the openvswitch library interfaces are internal and thus not >> stable (yet) encode the openvswitch version into the library name: >> libopenvswitch-2.0.90.so >> >> Binary size is reduced to around 1/3 when using shared libs. > > I think there's something missing, because when I do "make dist" and > then try to build from the generated tarball, I get: > > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `ovsdb/libovsdb.a', needed by > `tests/test-ovsdb'.
Sorry about that :( just didn't notice due to all the rebasing. Will respin. Thanks, Helmut _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
