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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Any benefit of using DPDK's makefiles instead of
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Hello,

14/01/2014 08:02, Daniel Kan:
> I already have existing makefiles for my current application. I would like
> to integrate dpdk into the application.  =E2=80=99m wondering if there is=
 any
> benefit to use dpdk=E2=80=99s makefiles instead of using your own makefil=
e and
> linking against the library (e.g. libintel_dpdk.a). Thanks.

DPDK makefiles have 2 benefits:
=2D provide a framework
=2D automatically set CFLAGS and LDFLAGS according to your configuration

If you don't need a framework, I think it's better to extract compilation=20
flags with something like pkg-config.
	http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config
A patch for a such feature would be welcome :)

=2D-=20
Thomas