From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f51.google.com (mail-wm0-f51.google.com [74.125.82.51]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E16AF68F2 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 22:01:35 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-wm0-f51.google.com with SMTP id l68so37150327wml.0 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 13:01:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=6wind-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:organization:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=/FUsNA8SV2er46lRj+geqFyolUxFbeaRq0Kv5GqmZfU=; b=N92sNDzIqGz6qgtL8GJBxfetoICmZsQwveolTIcjTLtzJCj2TcdsaQ4R2LPXoYgYME Vfneo+nMRRWbhhtaI9HfTzyzSxwu+YVkpqr4qJZ9u33jNGwZVDXU3hpJ6jvBtsRW3IBS 749laHoWUHDgVEWh0u5XFcTd882P/rVHhQo+BUkzNbWreTSiPT+ZDXwZfK6tg6gBotzP hGipATDFLsbKNpof3R0JMqhizpXTpxP1EHQIa3uH0NrLX92x9OM8oNVTlWJrBuRO8zuo nArQEY3cWash+tz/4+I5Iy0xjWi08/gCpkjIDhpydL7o2Ejqjcbn7GwBS7H2sw6C+2zR 3CKg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:organization :user-agent:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=/FUsNA8SV2er46lRj+geqFyolUxFbeaRq0Kv5GqmZfU=; b=iWnc7W2k2WlP7kwYcHyuS5AqGBb+e7te5Z77YH627xTQjSfRlGSMvNmDkuRP6Q5Qa/ dZssDDxCAhHywN4gFlvBfe9KTlR29AoQ2CAjUTsYFrwWzqgqF9avAi3ut6rdBUkBadLl NTqiKHsKbmYUPpzj3UAL7yz80phFhlK7mn6q1JvzvOHqTUOrqdGZC5PqEA91l/xtq5R6 RI9S4yKBx6SiiDlZ5KuA2WZ+yFofTAwykipwre0fNuqR5om8r2QWUujP5UTdRSVLEpl0 z8HD/1Lmmaoq2pnxUrli7irmBpZLldJyp2c+cpuSagGNybJvR06mG7Db3VC7cfvzsWfO tcMg== X-Gm-Message-State: AD7BkJLVUD+UosTCji15C9gkWjr1mef7zOu9r6U6hMazVOy4z3+GDbJcosyYQoCvWiy1YXTM X-Received: by 10.194.2.243 with SMTP id 19mr13727172wjx.154.1456693295740; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 13:01:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from xps13.localnet (171.36.101.84.rev.sfr.net. [84.101.36.171]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ys9sm22621376wjc.35.2016.02.28.13.01.34 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 28 Feb 2016 13:01:34 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Keith Wiles Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 22:00:02 +0100 Message-ID: <1976319.EWLy02CyDg@xps13> Organization: 6WIND User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.1.6-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.11; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1455039314-86891-1-git-send-email-keith.wiles@intel.com> References: <1455039314-86891-1-git-send-email-keith.wiles@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: dev@dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mk: add makefile extention support X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 21:01:36 -0000 Hi, 2016-02-09 11:35, Keith Wiles: > Adding support to the build system to allow for Makefile.XXX > extention to a subtree, which already has Makefiles. These > Makefiles could be from the autotools and others places. Using > the Makefile extention RTE_MKFILE_SUFFIX in a makefile subtree > using 'export RTE_MKFILE_SUFFIX=.XXX' to use Makefile.XXX in > that subtree. > > The main reason I needed this feature was to integrate a autotool > open source projects with DPDK and keep the original Makefiles. Sorry I fail to understand why it is needed. Are you trying to add autotool in DPDK? I don't think it is a good approach. The DPDK must provide a pkgconfig interface to be integrated anywhere.