From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cyril Cressent Subject: Re: Unable to compile DPDK 1.5 on Debian GNU/Linux: lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 15:35:48 +0000 Message-ID: <20131104153548.GC10240@debian> References: <52779A10.4010007@bisdn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org To: Marc Sune Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <52779A10.4010007-kpkqNMk1I7M@public.gmane.org> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Sender: "dev" On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 01:58:56PM +0100, Marc Sune wrote: > Dear all, > > I am unable to compile DPDK 1.5 (and previous versions) on Debian > GNU/Linux Wheezy (7) and Squeeze (6). > > It seems to me an issue with Make, probably different default flags > on this distribution, since the problematic Makefile is really > there. The funny part is that I was able to compile it on other > Debian-like systems (Ubuntu), but not on all of them. Of course I > can install another OS, but it is annoying to move from the usual > environment, and in principle it _should_ work. > > Any ideas? Am I missing something? Actually, a colleague of mine told me that this issue has been observed before on machines with mismatching kernel version and kernel headers version. Can you verify that: 1. You have installed the kernel headers If not, installing the "linux-headers" package should do. 2. You don't have mismatching kernel and headers versions Cyril