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]> --- v3-> v4: Address comments. v2-> v3: Fix sentence. v1-> v2: Improve logging instead of printing contents from config.log --- acinclude.m4 | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/acinclude.m4 b/acinclude.m4 index dba365ea1..e98aefb95 100644 --- a/acinclude.m4 +++ b/acinclude.m4 @@ -486,9 +486,10 @@ 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 - PKG_CONFIG_PATH for pkg-config to find the .pc file in - non-standard location])) + Failed to link with DPDK, check the config.log for more details. + If a working DPDK library was not found in the default search path, + update PKG_CONFIG_PATH for pkg-config to find the .pc file in a + non-standard location.])) ]) CFLAGS="$ovs_save_CFLAGS" -- 2.25.1 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
