Currently, on failure to link with DPDK, the configure script provides
an error message to update the PKG_CONFIG_PATH even though the cause of
failure was missing dependencies. Improve the error message to include this
scenario.

Signed-off-by: Sunil Pai G <[email protected]>
---
v2-> v3: Fix sentence.
v1-> v2: Improve logging instead of printing contents from config.log
---
 acinclude.m4 | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/acinclude.m4 b/acinclude.m4
index dba365ea1..15391e68d 100644
--- a/acinclude.m4
+++ b/acinclude.m4
@@ -486,7 +486,8 @@ AC_DEFUN([OVS_CHECK_DPDK], [
        DPDKLIB_FOUND=true],
       [AC_MSG_RESULT([no])
        AC_MSG_ERROR(m4_normalize([
-          Could not find DPDK library in default search path, update
+          Failed to link with DPDK, check config.log for more details.
+          Could not find working DPDK library in default search path, update
           PKG_CONFIG_PATH for pkg-config to find the .pc file in
           non-standard location]))
       ])
-- 
2.25.1

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