I downloaded dpdk version 21.08 from
http://static.dpdk.org/rel/.
Extracted and ran meson build.
During ninja build, I ran into
FAILED: drivers/rte_common_cpt.pmd.c
/usr/bin/python3 ../buildtools/gen-pmdinfo-cfile.py
/home/ybuser/dpdk-21.05/build/buildtools ar
/home/ybuser/dpdk-21.05/build/drivers/libtmp_rte_common_cpt.a
drivers/rte_common_cpt.pmd.c /usr/bin/python3 ../buildtools/pmdinfogen.py
elf
ar: `x' cannot be used on thin archives.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "../buildtools/gen-pmdinfo-cfile.py", line 17, in <module>
run_ar("x")
File "../buildtools/gen-pmdinfo-cfile.py", line 12, in <lambda>
run_ar = lambda command: subprocess.run(
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 516, in run
raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['ar', 'x',
'/home/ybuser/dpdk-21.05/build/drivers/libtmp_rte_common_cpt.a']' returned
non-zero exit status 1.
[508/2498] Compiling C object
lib/librte_pipeline.a.p/pipeline_rte_table_action.c.o
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
The issue was bypassed when I edited the run_ar("x") to run_ar("p").
Is this a known issue?
