From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga14.intel.com (mga14.intel.com [192.55.52.115]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AC65568A for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2015 12:10:24 +0100 (CET) Received: from orsmga001.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.18]) by fmsmga103.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 03 Dec 2015 03:10:23 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.20,377,1444719600"; d="scan'208";a="833396730" Received: from bricha3-mobl3.ger.corp.intel.com ([10.237.208.61]) by orsmga001.jf.intel.com with SMTP; 03 Dec 2015 03:10:21 -0800 Received: by (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 03 Dec 2015 11:10:20 +0025 Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 11:10:20 +0000 From: Bruce Richardson To: Thomas Monjalon Message-ID: <20151203111020.GB7828@bricha3-MOBL3> References: <1449028676-19232-1-git-send-email-thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> <20151203105752.GA7864@bricha3-MOBL3> <1904583.t7IonTIn7B@xps13> <2383099.4onlEHILsb@xps13> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2383099.4onlEHILsb@xps13> Organization: Intel Shannon Ltd. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Cc: dev@dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/12] standard make install 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: Thu, 03 Dec 2015 11:10:24 -0000 On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 12:06:41PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 2015-12-03 12:02, Thomas Monjalon: > > 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. > > My bad. When deleting build/.config, the bug appears. > I will fix it. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks, saves me from doing further digging. :-)