Error while compiling DPDK with VPP 23.02

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2023 08:03:43 +0000
Chinmaya Agarwal <Chinmaya.Agarwal at hsc.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> While compiling DPDK for VPP v23.02 on Centos 8, we saw below compilation error:-
> 
> In file included from ../src-dpdk/drivers/common/mlx5/mlx5_common_mr.c:14:
> ../src-dpdk/drivers/common/mlx5/linux/mlx5_glue.h:15:10: fatal error: infiniband/mlx5dv.h: No such file or directory
>  #include <infiniband/mlx5dv.h>
>           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> compilation terminated.
> ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
> Could not rebuild .
> make[3]: *** [packages/dpdk.mk:218: /opt/vpp/build/external/rpm/tmp/.dpdk.install.ok] Error 255
> make[3]: Leaving directory '/opt/vpp/build/external'
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.whpNsT (%install)
> 
> 
> RPM build errors:
>     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.whpNsT (%install)
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:113: vpp-ext-deps-23.02-8.x86_64.rpm] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/opt/vpp/build/external'
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:125: install-rpm] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/opt/vpp/build/external'
> make: *** [Makefile:627: install-ext-deps] Error 2
> 
> It is not able to find "infiniband/mlx5dv.h".
> 
> What could be the reason for this error? Any package that might be missing and needs to install or are we missing something here?
> 
Probably same package requirements as normal DPDK support for Mellanox.

https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/platform/mlx5.html#mlx5-common-compilation