[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/12] standard make install
Bruce Richardson
bruce.richardson at intel.com
Thu Dec 3 12:10:20 CET 2015
On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 12:06:41PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2015-12-03 12:02, Thomas Monjalon:
> > 2015-12-03 10:57, Bruce Richardson:
> > > On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 06:01:57AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > > Following the recent discussions, this is a proposal to have a standard
> > > > installation process while keeping compatibility with most of the old
> > > > behaviours.
> > > >
> > > How compatible are we looking for here. The standard way of compiling up DPDK
> > > up till now has always been "make install T=$RTE_TARGET", but that seems to no
> > > longer work.
> > >
> > > bruce at silpixa00389037-Fedora:dpdk-clean$ echo $RTE_TARGET
> > > x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
> > >
> > > bruce at silpixa00389037-Fedora:dpdk-clean$ make install T=$RTE_TARGET
> > > /home/bruce/dpdk-clean/mk/rte.vars.mk:58: /home/bruce/dpdk-clean/build/.config: No such file or directory
> > > /home/bruce/dpdk-clean/mk/rte.vars.mk:83: *** RTE_ARCH is not defined. Stop.
> > > /home/bruce/dpdk-clean/mk/rte.sdkroot.mk:98: recipe for target 'install' failed
> > > make: *** [install] Error 2
> > >
> > > When I look for backward compatibilty, this is the main thing I look for, as I'm
> > > not aware of anyone (on my team here at least!) who does a make config first etc.
> > > When developing, most people just do a "make install T=..."straight up.
> >
> > I agree.
> > And it works on my machine.
> > I'd like to understand what is the problem on yours.
>
> My bad. When deleting build/.config, the bug appears.
> I will fix it. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Thanks, saves me from doing further digging. :-)
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