Brice Goglin, le Mon 03 Jun 2013 19:50:26 +0200, a écrit : > Le 03/06/2013 10:52, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > > Brice Goglin, le Mon 03 Jun 2013 10:46:49 +0200, a écrit : > >> hwloc/bitmap.h is the biggest problem, plugins should be allowed to use > >> all of them but there are maaaaany of them. Splitting hwloc-bitmap.so > >> out of hwloc.so would be an easy way to solve this. The bitmap API is > >> totally independent from the hwloc core anyway. > > Having a libhwloc-plugin-helper.so for most functions is probably the > > sanest way indeed. > > If both plugins and the core libhwloc use these functions, is there a > way to avoid having to pass both -lhwloc and -lhwloc-helper when linking > normal hwloc applications?
If only plugins and the core use these functions, the application does not have to use -lhwloc-helper at all. If the application uses them (e.g. bitmap functions), then it would have to use -lhwloc-helper, but we can probably as well simply provide the symbols in both libhwloc-helper and libhwloc, so the application only needs -lhwloc. We can probably do that for the helpers we know for sure they have no state, such as bitmap functions. Samuel
