On 03/20, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-03-20 at 13:22 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > On Tue, 2019-03-19 at 16:17 -0700, Stanislav Fomichev wrote:
> > > On 03/19, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > > > Generate a libbpf.pc file at build time so that users can rely
> > > > on pkg-config to find the library, its CFLAGS and LDFLAGS.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org>
> > > > ---
> > > > v2: use QUIET_GEN instead of QUIET_LINK to generate pc file,
> > > >     save kernel version in its own variable instead of calling
> > > >     make inline
> > > > 
> > > >  tools/lib/bpf/.gitignore         |  1 +
> > > >  tools/lib/bpf/Makefile           | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
> > > >  tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.pc.template | 11 +++++++++++
> > > >  3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > > >  create mode 100644 tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.pc.template
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/.gitignore b/tools/lib/bpf/.gitignore
> > > > index 4db74758c674..7d9e182a1f51 100644
> > > > --- a/tools/lib/bpf/.gitignore
> > > > +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/.gitignore
> > > > @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> > > >  libbpf_version.h
> > > > +libbpf.pc
> > > >  FEATURE-DUMP.libbpf
> > > >  test_libbpf
> > > > diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/Makefile b/tools/lib/bpf/Makefile
> > > > index a05c43468bd0..1df3ebfb3118 100644
> > > > --- a/tools/lib/bpf/Makefile
> > > > +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/Makefile
> > > > @@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ libdir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(libdir))
> > > >  libdir_relative_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(libdir_relative))
> > > >  
> > > >  LIB_FILE = libbpf.a libbpf.so
> > > > +PC_FILE = libbpf.pc
> > > >  
> > > >  VERSION                = $(BPF_VERSION)
> > > >  PATCHLEVEL     = $(BPF_PATCHLEVEL)
> > > > @@ -89,6 +90,7 @@ OBJ           = $@
> > > >  N              =
> > > >  
> > > >  LIBBPF_VERSION =
> > > > $(BPF_VERSION).$(BPF_PATCHLEVEL).$(BPF_EXTRAVERSION)
> > > > +KERNEL_VERSION = $(shell make --no-print-directory -sC ../../..
> > > > kernelversion)
> > > Oh, we do already have LIBBPF_VERSION, why not use that? This way
> > > you don't need to do anything for out-of-tree libbpf from github.
> > > 
> > > I don't remember what was the strategy regarding libbpf versioning,
> > > but
> > > that 0.0.1 should be changed to something sensible (be set to the
> > > kernel
> > > version upon release?)
> > 
> > [re-sending as reply via phone added html and the list daemon said
> > no-
> > no]
> > 
> > That looks like the ABI version though, rather than the source
> > version?
> > The source version is more appropriate for the PC file
> 
> That said, the versioning looks looks like it could use some love and
> it's not really a factor that should gate a pkg-config file and could
> be done separately if required, so in v3 I've removed KERNEL_VERSION
> and used LIBBPF_VERSION as you suggested.
Agree :-) There was some conversation recently about incrementing it per
kernel release vs real api change. I don't remember what the outcome
was exactly.

> Thanks for reviewing!
> 
> -- 
> Kind regards,
> Luca Boccassi

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