Re: [PATCHv4 RESEND net-next 2/2] selftests: wireguard: update to using nft for qemu test

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 12:45:17PM +0000, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 12:42:42PM +0100, Phil Sutter wrote:
> > Hi Hangbin,
> > 
> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 10:40:25AM +0000, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> > > Hi Jason, Phil,
> > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 05:15:41PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jan 06, 2025 at 08:10:43AM +0000, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> > > > > +	echo "file /bin/nft $(NFTABLES_PATH)/src/nft 755 0 0" >> $@
> > > > > +	echo "file /lib/libmnl.so.0 $(TOOLCHAIN_PATH)/lib/libmnl.so.0 755 0 0" >> $@
> > > > > +	echo "file /lib/libnftnl.so.11 $(TOOLCHAIN_PATH)/lib/libnftnl.so.11 755 0 0" >> $@
> > > > 
> > > > Can't these be statically linked into the nft binary?
> > > 
> > > If I omit these, I will got error like
> > > 
> > > mnl_attr_put: symbol not found
> > > 
> > > Even though I set `--enable-static` in nft build.
> > > 
> > > Do you know what's the reason?
> > 
> > I was able to have nft linked statically against built libmnl and
> > libnftnl by passing '--disable-shared --enable-static' to configure
> > calls of all three build systems. With --enable-shared in library
> > configure calls, nftables build preferred to link against the DSOs and I
> > did not find a way to change this.
> 
> The patch is using
> "./configure --prefix=/ $(CROSS_COMPILE_FLAG) --enable-static \
> --disable-shared --disable-debug --disable-man-doc --with-mini-gmp --without-cli"
> to build nft.
> 
> I don't know why it's not linked static.

All three DSOs...