The --whole-archive option is required to link vswitchd with DPDK, otherwise the PMD drivers are not going to be included. Omitting the option is not going to cause build failures, but OVS won't be able to use most physical NICs.
Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiet...@vmware.com> --- acinclude.m4 | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/acinclude.m4 b/acinclude.m4 index a56d160..d4a3133 100644 --- a/acinclude.m4 +++ b/acinclude.m4 @@ -170,7 +170,8 @@ AC_DEFUN([OVS_CHECK_DPDK], [ DPDK_INCLUDE=$RTE_SDK/include DPDK_LIB_DIR=$RTE_SDK/lib - DPDK_LIB="-lintel_dpdk -lfuse " + DPDK_LIB="-lintel_dpdk" + DPDK_EXTRA_LIB="-lfuse" ovs_save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS" ovs_save_LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS" @@ -187,7 +188,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([OVS_CHECK_DPDK], [ found=false save_LIBS=$LIBS for extras in "" "-ldl"; do - LIBS="$DPDK_LIB $extras $save_LIBS" + LIBS="$DPDK_LIB $extras $save_LIBS $DPDK_EXTRA_LIB" AC_LINK_IFELSE( [AC_LANG_PROGRAM([#include <rte_config.h> #include <rte_eal.h>], @@ -214,7 +215,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([OVS_CHECK_DPDK], [ # # These options are specified inside a single -Wl directive to prevent # autotools from reordering them. - DPDK_vswitchd_LDFLAGS=-Wl,$DPDK_LIB + DPDK_vswitchd_LDFLAGS=-Wl,--whole-archive,$DPDK_LIB,--no-whole-archive AC_SUBST([DPDK_vswitchd_LDFLAGS]) AC_DEFINE([DPDK_NETDEV], [1], [System uses the DPDK module.]) else -- 2.1.4 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev