[dpdk-dev] Issue building for ppc64le

[Marco Varlese]

On Tue, 2018-02-27 at 18:15 +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 2/27/2018 4:08 PM, Marco Varlese wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is anybody else experiencing issues with building DPDK 17.11 for ppc64le?
> > Any help would be very much appreciated.
> 
> I have not tested but PPC config disables the ixgbe and this sample uses
> ixgbe so build error is expected.
Ok; so can you provide how to disable IXGBE?
> 
> This example is using PMD specific APIs and unfortunately it makes the
> sample application non portable for all architectures.
Ok; how do I disable the building of this sample app?
> 
> > 
> > I get the below error:
> > 
> > == START ==
> > [  326s] gcc -Wp,-MD,./.power_manager.o.d.tmp  -m64 -pthread -fPIC   -
> > DRTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAG_PPC64 -DRTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAG_ALTIVEC
> > -DRTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAG_VSX  -I/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/dpdk-17.11/ppc_64-
> > power8-linuxapp-gcc/examples/vm_power_manager/ppc_64-power8-linuxapp-
> > gcc/include 
> > -I/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/dpdk-17.11/ppc_64-power8-linuxapp-gcc/include
> > -include /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/dpdk-17.11/ppc_64-power8-linuxapp-
> > gcc/include/rte_config.h -O3 -I/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/dpdk-
> > 17.11/lib/librte_power/ -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes
> > -Wmissing-declarations -Wold-style-definition -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align
> > -Wnested-externs -Wcast-qual -Wformat-nonliteral -Wformat-security -Wundef
> > -Wwrite-strings -Wimplicit-fallthrough=2 -Wno-format-truncation   -
> > DVERSION="17.11" -o power_manager.o -c /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/dpdk-
> > 17.11/examples/vm_power_manager/power_manager.c 
> > [  327s] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/dpdk-
> > 17.11/examples/vm_power_manager/main.c:61:10: fatal error: rte_pmd_ixgbe.h:
> > No
> > such file or directory
> > [  327s]  #include <rte_pmd_ixgbe.h>
> > [  327s]           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > [  327s] compilation terminated.
> > [  327s] make[4]: *** [/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/dpdk-
> > 17.11/mk/internal/rte.compile-pre.mk:140: main.o] Error 1
> > [  327s] make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> > == END ==
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> 
> 
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Marco V

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