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. /Bruce
