netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 iproute2-next 0/5] iproute2: add libbpf support

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Date:   Wed, 28 Oct 2020 19:34:38 -0700
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
Cc:     Hangbin Liu <haliu@...hat.com>, David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 iproute2-next 0/5] iproute2: add libbpf support

On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 19:27:20 -0700
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 7:06 PM Hangbin Liu <haliu@...hat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 05:02:34PM -0600, David Ahern wrote:  
> > > fails to compile on Ubuntu 20.10:
> > >
> > > root@...10-sfo3:~/iproute2.git# ./configure
> > > TC schedulers
> > >  ATM  yes
> > >  IPT  using xtables
> > >  IPSET  yes
> > >
> > > iptables modules directory: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xtables
> > > libc has setns: yes
> > > SELinux support: yes
> > > libbpf support: yes
> > > ELF support: yes
> > > libmnl support: yes
> > > Berkeley DB: no
> > > need for strlcpy: yes
> > > libcap support: yes
> > >
> > > root@...10-sfo3:~/iproute2.git# make clean
> > >
> > > root@...10-sfo3:~/iproute2.git# make -j 4
> > > ...
> > > /usr/bin/ld: ../lib/libutil.a(bpf_libbpf.o): in function `load_bpf_object':
> > > bpf_libbpf.c:(.text+0x3cb): undefined reference to
> > > `bpf_program__section_name'
> > > /usr/bin/ld: bpf_libbpf.c:(.text+0x438): undefined reference to
> > > `bpf_program__section_name'
> > > /usr/bin/ld: bpf_libbpf.c:(.text+0x716): undefined reference to
> > > `bpf_program__section_name'
> > > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> > > make[1]: *** [Makefile:27: ip] Error 1
> > > make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> > > make: *** [Makefile:64: all] Error 2  
> >
> > You need to update libbpf to latest version.  
> 
> Why not using libbpf from submodule?

Because it makes it harder for people downloading tarballs and distributions.
Iproute2 has worked well by being standalone.

Want to merge libbpf into iproute2??