Awesome sleuthing. Looking forward to the appropriate person figuring a solution out. :)
Thanks, Chris. > On Sep 28, 2019, at 1:34 PM, Burt Silverman <bur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > Okay, I see the problem. So many timestamps and ok flags in the build system > that we forgot to handle all of them correctly. > > When you touch that DPDK file, the build system is good about realizing that > it has to rebuild DPDK. Unfortunately, DPDK is included along with some other > things in the "external" package. > > By default, build-root/Makefile will remove the install directory of a > package if it knows it has to reinstall the package. See around line 709 in > build-root/Makefile. (That's why my build failure I reported in my previous > email failed.) > > If you "ls -a build-root/build-vpp_debug-native/external/", you'll see lots > of .ok flags. Since we wiped all of the install directory for package > external, all of the .install.ok files for the various pieces of external > should have been removed, too. But they are not, and a bunch of things do not > get reinstalled. So we don't find out that no libquickly is installed until > we are building something that requires it and the build fails. > > Either the .install.ok flag files have to be handled differently, or the > variable external_keep_instdir has to be true -- see line 707 in > build-root/Makefile. The appropriate person needs to decide which method is > appropriate. That would be very appropriate:-) > > Burt > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. > > View/Reply Online (#14084): https://lists.fd.io/g/vpp-dev/message/14084 > Mute This Topic: https://lists.fd.io/mt/34300592/1826170 > Group Owner: vpp-dev+ow...@lists.fd.io > Unsubscribe: https://lists.fd.io/g/vpp-dev/unsub [cho...@chopps.org] > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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