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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rte.extvars.mk: allow overriding RTE_SDK_BIN
	from the environment
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 16:27:26 +0100
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Hi Matthew,

RTE_SDK_BIN is an internal variable and should not be overriden.

2016-01-19 21:30, Matthew Hall:
> Currently pktgen-dpdk and many other external apps will fail to compile
> if the build output directory name is not equal to the target name.
> 
> This causes problems if you used an alternative build output directory.

Have you installed DPDK somewhere? Example:
	make install O=mybuild DESTDIR=mylocalinstall

Then you should build your app like this:
	make RTE_SDK=$(readlink -e ../dpdk/mylocalinstall/usr/local/share/dpdk)