> -----Original Message----- > From: Thinh Tran <thin...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 10:50 PM > To: Ali Alnubani <alia...@nvidia.com>; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon > (EXTERNAL) <tho...@monjalon.net> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; David Christensen <d...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: set pkgconfig for ppc64le > > Hi, > > On 7/13/2022 2:39 AM, Ali Alnubani wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> > >> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 11:11 PM > >> To: Ali Alnubani <alia...@nvidia.com> > >> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; David Christensen <d...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > >> Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: set pkgconfig for ppc64le > >> > >> + PPC maintainer > >> > >> 07/07/2022 13:41, Ali Alnubani: > >>> Meson fails to detect the dependencies that are included > >>> in PKG_CONFIG_PATH and built for ppc64le if binaries.pkgconfig > >>> is not set in the ppc64le cross-file for Ubuntu. > >>> > >>> This fixes the issue by setting binaries.pkgconfig to the > >>> binary provided by the package 'pkg-config-powerpc64le-linux-gnu'. > >>> > >>> Signed-off-by: Ali Alnubani <alia...@nvidia.com> > >>> --- > >>> config/ppc/ppc64le-power8-linux-gcc-ubuntu | 1 + > >> > >> Why not adding the same for ppc64le-power8-linux-gcc? > >> > >>> +pkgconfig = 'powerpc64le-linux-gnu-pkg-config' > > > > I didn't find any operating systems that distribute the powerpc64le cross- > compiler with the binary names found in config/ppc/ppc64le-power8-linux- > gcc. > > Both Ubuntu and Fedora use the -gnu suffix. Fedora doesn't seem to have > a pkg-config binary for powerpc64le though. > > I am able to cross-compile dpdk on Ubuntu with the default config file > My system info: > # uname -rvm > 5.4.0-113-generic #127-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 18 14:30:56 UTC 2022 x86_64 > > # apt list gcc-10-powerpc64le-linux-gnu | grep installed > gcc-10-powerpc64le-linux-gnu/focal-updates,focal-security,now > 10.3.0-1ubuntu1~20.04cross1 amd64 [installed] > # which powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc > /usr/bin/powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc > # ls -l /usr/bin/powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Jul 13 11:56 > /usr/bin/powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc -> /usr/bin/powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc- > 10 > > # apt list pkg-config | grep installed > pkg-config/focal,now 0.29.1-0ubuntu4 amd64 [installed] > > # meson cross-build_p8 --cross-file > config/ppc/ppc64le-power8-linux-gcc-ubuntu > The Meson build system > Version: 0.56.2 > Source dir: /root/dpdk > Build dir: /root/dpdk/cross-build_p8 > Build type: cross build > Program cat found: YES (/bin/cat) > Project name: DPDK > Project version: 22.07.0-rc4 > C compiler for the host machine: powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc (gcc 10.3.0 > "powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 10.3.0-1ubuntu1~20.04) 10.3.0") > C linker for the host machine: powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc ld.bfd 2.34 > C compiler for the build machine: cc (gcc 9.4.0 "cc (Ubuntu > 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.4.0") > C linker for the build machine: cc ld.bfd 2.34 > Build machine cpu family: x86_64 > Build machine cpu: x86_64 > Host machine cpu family: x86_64 > Host machine cpu: x86_64 > Target machine cpu family: ppc64 > Target machine cpu: power8 > Program pkg-config found: YES (/usr/bin/pkg-config) > Program check-symbols.sh found: YES (/root/dpdk/buildtools/check- > symbols.sh) > Program options-ibverbs-static.sh found: YES > (/root/dpdk/buildtools/options-ibverbs-static.sh) > Program objdump found: YES (/usr/bin/objdump) > Program python3 found: YES (/usr/bin/python3) > Program cat found: YES (/bin/cat) > Program ../buildtools/symlink-drivers-solibs.sh found: YES (/bin/sh > /root/dpdk/config/../buildtools/symlink-drivers-solibs.sh) > Checking for size of "void *" : 8 > Checking for size of "void *" : 8 > ...... > Build targets in project: 851 > > Found ninja-1.10.0 at /usr/bin/ninja > # ninja -C cross-build_p8 > ninja: Entering directory `cross-build_p8' > [2933/2933] Linking target app/test/dpdk-test > > similar to it, I'm able to build for power9 >
Hi Thinh, I'm also able to cross-build for ppc64 on Ubuntu, but without setting binaries.pkgconfig, meson will skip some build targets, even if PKG_CONFIG_PATH points to their dependencies. Have you tried on Fedora?
