Hi, 2016-02-09 11:35, Keith Wiles: > Adding support to the build system to allow for Makefile.XXX > extention to a subtree, which already has Makefiles. These > Makefiles could be from the autotools and others places. Using > the Makefile extention RTE_MKFILE_SUFFIX in a makefile subtree > using 'export RTE_MKFILE_SUFFIX=.XXX' to use Makefile.XXX in > that subtree. > > The main reason I needed this feature was to integrate a autotool > open source projects with DPDK and keep the original Makefiles.
Sorry I fail to understand why it is needed. Are you trying to add autotool in DPDK? I don't think it is a good approach. The DPDK must provide a pkgconfig interface to be integrated anywhere.
