On 7/2/20 5:25 PM, Pai G, Sunil wrote:
>>
>>> +
>>> if [ "${DPDK_VER##refs/*/}" != "${DPDK_VER}" ]; then
>>> # Avoid using cache for git tree build.
>>> rm -rf dpdk-dir
>>> @@ -108,7 +112,8 @@ function install_dpdk()
>>> if [ -f "${VERSION_FILE}" ]; then
>>> VER=$(cat ${VERSION_FILE})
>>> if [ "${VER}" = "${DPDK_VER}" ]; then
>>> - EXTRA_OPTS="${EXTRA_OPTS}
>>> --with-dpdk=$(pwd)/dpdk-dir/build"
>>> + sudo ninja -C $(pwd)/dpdk-dir/build install
>>> + sudo ldconfig
>>
>> I think that installing right here inside the cached folder and just
>> adjusting
>> environment variables should be a bit faster than re-installing DPDK every
>> time.
>>
>> This script also will be a good example for people like me, who really don't
>> want
>> to install development versions of DPDK globally on a work laptop while
>> testing
>> OVS builds.
>
> Yes , Thanks for the suggestion. Although ,using an install to a directory
> with
> a prefix would require this patch from Bruce:
> https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/72271/
> (which is not merged yet as of this writing) .without this , OVS would fail
> to run
> searching for few shared DPDK libraries even when built with static libraries.
But, IIUC, we could just add a path to ld.so.conf to avoid that.
Will it work? You're updating ldconfig here anyway.
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