[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] mk: allow use of environment var for make config

[Hunt, David]

Shreyansh,

     I found an issue (or two) with this part of the patch, and have a 
proposed solution.

1. RTE_TARGET originally had a different meaning. It was used for making 
examples, specifying the target directory of where the SDK was built. 
It's not good to re-purpose this for something else, as I'm doing in 
this patch. (even though I'm not sure that variable is suitably named in 
the first place, but that's a different issue).
2. If we set RTE_TARGET on the environment, we will break the 'make -C 
examples/<app>', unless we set RTE_TARGET to be something else (i.e. 
'make -C examples/<app> RTE_TARGET=build'). One value for making DPDK, 
and another for building examples. It's confusing to the user.

An alternative patch would be as follows:

  RTE_CONFIG_TEMPLATE :=
  ifdef T
*-ifeq ("$(origin T)", "command line")*
  RTE_CONFIG_TEMPLATE := $(RTE_SRCDIR)/config/defconfig_$(T)
*-endif**
*endif
  export RTE_CONFIG_TEMPLATE

So instead of setting 'RTE_TARGET' on in the environment, we set 'T' 
instead. This allows 'T' to come from the command line OR an environment 
variable. It resolves the 'make examples' issue, and everything else 
works as it did before, 'make install', etc. It seems to me to be a 
cleaner solution for this. What do you think? If it's OK with you, I'll 
submit a v3 (the 'make defconfig' part of the patchset will remain the 
same as v2).

Rgds,
Dave.



On 26/5/2017 9:52 AM, David Hunt wrote:
> Users can now set RTE_TARGET in their environment and use
> 'make config' without T=template.
>
> If RTE_TARGET is set in the user's environment, and if T=
> is not used, 'make config' will use $RTE_TARGET.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Hunt <david.hunt at intel.com>
> ---
>   mk/rte.sdkroot.mk | 2 ++
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mk/rte.sdkroot.mk b/mk/rte.sdkroot.mk
> index 2843b7d..9bdaf20 100644
> --- a/mk/rte.sdkroot.mk
> +++ b/mk/rte.sdkroot.mk
> @@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ ifdef T
>   ifeq ("$(origin T)", "command line")
>   RTE_CONFIG_TEMPLATE := $(RTE_SRCDIR)/config/defconfig_$(T)
>   endif
> +else ifdef RTE_TARGET
> +RTE_CONFIG_TEMPLATE := $(RTE_SRCDIR)/config/defconfig_$(RTE_TARGET)
>   endif
>   export RTE_CONFIG_TEMPLATE
>