Re: compile and install using configure-make-make_install

[Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>]

On 10/27/2015 04:25 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> Just clarify a bit further the idea I had in mind, I've put together the following
> two example patches. After applying these patches the following sequence of
> operations works to install dpdk libraries and headers into /opt (/opt/lib/dpdk
> and /opt/include/dpdk respectively). Also the machine type is changed from native
> to default, and the settings for KNI are disabled.
>
> 	./configure --prefix=/opt --machine=default \
> 		--config=RTE_LIBRTE_KNI=n \
> 		--config=CONFIG_RTE_KNI_KMOD=n
> 	cd build
> 	make
> 	sudo make install

I think I like the idea of a configure script that hides (some of) the 
DPDK config peculiarities behind a more familiar looking interface. For 
example it could be used for figuring out the machine-os-compiler 
triplet automatically for the common cases.

However having "make install" behave differently depending on which 
directory its invoked from I dunno. Its unlike anything else out there 
(that I know of) and I thought the idea was to make DPDK behave more 
like a normal OSS citizen :)

	- Panu -