netdev - Re: libbpf-devel rpm uapi headers

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Date:   Wed, 2 Oct 2019 11:43:17 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc:     Julia Kartseva <hex@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        "debian-kernel@...ts.debian.org" <debian-kernel@...ts.debian.org>,
        "md@...ux.it" <md@...ux.it>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>,
        "labbott@...hat.com" <labbott@...hat.com>,
        "acme@...nel.org" <acme@...nel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrey Ignatov <rdna@...com>,
        "jolsa@...nel.org" <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>,
        iovisor-dev@...ts.iovisor.org
Subject: Re: libbpf-devel rpm uapi headers

On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 07:43:31PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> hi,
> we'd like to have bcc linked with libbpf instead of the
> github submodule, initial change is discussed in here:
>   https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/pull/2535
> 
> In order to do that, we need to have access to uapi headers
> compatible with libbpf rpm, bcc is attaching and using them
> during compilation.
> 
> I added them in the fedora spec below (not submitted yet),
> so libbpf would carry those headers.
> 
> Thoughts? thanks,

I think it may break a bunch of people who rely on bcc being a single library.
What is the main motiviation to use libbpf as a shared library in libbcc?

I think we can have both options. libbpf as git submodule and as shared.
In practice git submodule is so much simpler to use and a lot less headaches.