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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] standard make install
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2015 12:02:42 +0100
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2015-12-03 10:57, Bruce Richardson:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 06:01:57AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > Following the recent discussions, this is a proposal to have a standard
> > installation process while keeping compatibility with most of the old
> > behaviours.
> >
> How compatible are we looking for here. The standard way of compiling up DPDK
> up till now has always been "make install T=$RTE_TARGET", but that seems to no
> longer work.
> 
> bruce@silpixa00389037-Fedora:dpdk-clean$ echo $RTE_TARGET
> x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
> 
> bruce@silpixa00389037-Fedora:dpdk-clean$ make install T=$RTE_TARGET
> /home/bruce/dpdk-clean/mk/rte.vars.mk:58: /home/bruce/dpdk-clean/build/.config: No such file or directory
> /home/bruce/dpdk-clean/mk/rte.vars.mk:83: *** RTE_ARCH is not defined.  Stop.
> /home/bruce/dpdk-clean/mk/rte.sdkroot.mk:98: recipe for target 'install' failed
> make: *** [install] Error 2
> 
> When I look for backward compatibilty, this is the main thing I look for, as I'm
> not aware of anyone (on my team here at least!) who does a make config first etc. 
> When developing, most people just do a "make install T=..."straight up.

I agree.
And it works on my machine.
I'd like to understand what is the problem on yours.