On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 1:29 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 06:54:28PM +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. >> >> Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.sc...@googlemail.com> > > Thank you! > > I had to fold in the following to polish this up a bit (in particular > to get "sparse" to work). I'll push this in a minute.
Nice, thanks for the sparse cleanup! _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
