[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/2] devtools: add path to additional shared object files

[Aaron Conole]

Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang at arm.com> writes:

> Drivers librte_mempool_ring.so and librte_pmd_null.so are loaded by
> librte_eal.so when running testpmd.
> In Ubuntu Xenial, driver path is installed to RPATH on testpmd. This
> allows librte_eal.so to find drivers by using the RPATH.
> However, in Ubuntu Bionic, driver path is installed to RUNPATH instead.
> The RUNPATH on testpmd is not available by librte_eal.so and therefore
> lead to driver load failure:
>
> EAL: Detected 32 lcore(s)
> EAL: Detected 1 NUMA nodes
> EAL: librte_mempool_ring.so: cannot open shared object file:
> 					No such file or directory
> EAL: FATAL: Cannot init plugins
> EAL: Cannot init plugins
>
> Add 'drivers' into LD_LIBRARY_PATH so that testpmd can find and make
> use of these shared libraries.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang at arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu at arm.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>