Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] build: fix EAL path to drivers for static builds

2017-10-23 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 05:41:02PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote: > For static builds, even though the drivers are installed in the lib folder > that does not mean that that folder should be set as the EAL driver search > path. If it is, EAL will try loading all shared libraries as drivers and > fa

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] build: fix EAL path to drivers for static builds

2017-10-17 Thread Bruce Richardson
For static builds, even though the drivers are installed in the lib folder that does not mean that that folder should be set as the EAL driver search path. If it is, EAL will try loading all shared libraries as drivers and fail to start. Instead, track the EAL driver path separately from the driver