[ovs-discuss] Did anyone manage to build and use ovs with SHARED libraries

[Gurucharan Shetty]

I sent in a change that fixes the problem for my reproduction.

http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2014-July/042853.html


On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Gurucharan Shetty <shettyg at nicira.com>
wrote:

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> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Gur Stavi <gstavi at mrv.com> wrote:
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>>  Yes,
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>> With static libraries I am able to bring up ovs-vswitchd and see it in an
>> OpenDaylight controller.
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> I can reproduce the hang. I will spend some time on it.
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>> Regards,
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>> Gur
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>> *From:* Gurucharan Shetty [mailto:shettyg at nicira.com]
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 16, 2014 17:53
>> *To:* Gur Stavi
>> *Cc:* discuss at openvswitch.org
>> *Subject:* Re: [ovs-discuss] Did anyone manage to build and use ovs with
>> SHARED libraries
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>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Gur Stavi <gstavi at mrv.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I tried building ovs with shared libraries to reduce the size of the
>> executables. Mainly I would like to generate libopenvswitch.so instead of
>> libopenvswitch.a.
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>> I added --enable-shared to the 'configure' command and also tried some
>> other approaches.
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>> The 'make' was successful.
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>> ovsdb-server started.
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>> But every time I tried to launch ovs-vswitchd or ovs-vsctl they hanged.
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>> Did it actually work before you enabled shared libraries? A "hang" can
>> happen with ovs-vswitchd without '--detach'. A "hang" can happen with
>> ovs-vsctl if ovs-vswitchd is not running.
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>> Any idea why?
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>> Thanks,
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>> Gur
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