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 97424594B for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 15:20:30 +0100 (CET) Received: by wmvv187 with SMTP id v187so159039428wmv.1 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 06:20:30 -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 :content-type; bh=s3n4uLMf4gYGcwb2VPmKKzdFVDsxkBdA+Be6WBIGJi0=; b=qS6qb+VYGzmErfrq5QaBkTC81CtQ51PnHB9NK3NEteiBJtimsBmS9jCJcMqIvJJcHj s2RKj10CPgX0Sd6EWK7TMM8eLQuV3Pr4a3Eqv5wUKvfgwp5XyUABwUQOlmDvF1Yc2LDr /A9cwPOR26icgMennxdOLPf4hWnyoEwU8x7I3QV02J9p0TIOwri0u/jroCz06t5MAfxJ kZht60PgAeymYaXN4QQjinr2E0l1kevl9Gmn5W6vSc/8xQkmcxTa66slmElsYbaDQLc4 qbGuijE4QYkkVeqSaOfTJQGa9NJD9F7uu0muiURMm+Og500hNGNpqvA4db1uTXnnlu1A jtLw== 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:content-type; bh=s3n4uLMf4gYGcwb2VPmKKzdFVDsxkBdA+Be6WBIGJi0=; b=F5oaEWxUepxuJiu5KlZDYTpbUSJUp9HY4OE9hQhrkagCC67mho521Rg1UPwgngiVaq 1LuAybUdIKWVFgXrYaJfaGWzxNgoy9iKXuHl7hooflGdlNRVvPw1wFj4I7G2ioHKXxmr Apitj9L7jp6Ef+/NFORM75A7PDiCQXRzL7vUF3KVPqyeePEzZyF8dW5dCx3tWt0TUBPs JdXnsDrsiSkcTZ7s5NEGh70lJtnUU8P8omvgAg67iD0nLEQqTPVQSv3/x6ZBUL7zLqX7 +ronETCOa+k57nylvQSJF+gJ5hoWGhdEcDZk4UYD7ABJ4NLQZIEJG/V8xhOklN4DuwLv MqYA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlOVe6EwHxqtLolBLCRFXG8s2Y724tT7vDBdJv3pA6vHFc8Dg3SDuVQC37/z75jAquQCcU7 X-Received: by 10.194.109.169 with SMTP id ht9mr49221333wjb.13.1448893230437; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 06:20:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from xps13.localnet (136-92-190-109.dsl.ovh.fr. [109.190.92.136]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id lx4sm46943216wjb.5.2015.11.30.06.20.29 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 30 Nov 2015 06:20:29 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Panu Matilainen Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 15:19:22 +0100 Message-ID: <3725311.VXmvO5gR6z@xps13> Organization: 6WIND User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.1.6-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.11; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <565C406C.8020005@redhat.com> References: <1446805454-17776-1-git-send-email-bruce.richardson@intel.com> <3475702.r5OlE1Gpee@xps13> <565C406C.8020005@redhat.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] reserve 'make install' for future use 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: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 14:20:30 -0000 2015-11-30 14:26, Panu Matilainen: > On 11/27/2015 07:33 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > 2015-11-25 10:48, Panu Matilainen: > >> On 11/24/2015 06:54 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote: > >>> On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 02:04:54PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > >>>> 2015-11-06 12:57, Bruce Richardson: > >>>>> So, any thoughts or comments on this? There has been lots of discussion in this > >>>>> general area but nothing yet going into the release to try and improve the situation. > >>>>> > >>>>> Are we just going to kick the problem down the road to the 2.3 release? > >>>> > >>>> I plan to check these patches in the coming days for an integration in 2.2. > >>>> > >>> Anything further on this? > >>> Any thoughts from anyone else about this whole area of a saner build/install > >>> system for DPDK and the various patches floating around. > >> > >> Well, it seems we wont have a sane "make install" in 2.2 yet, but this > >> is at least a step in the right direction so +1 from me. > > > > Why is it a step in the right direction? > > Right direction as in, everybody seems to agree we want "make install" > ultimately do the right thing. If we can't have it in 2.2 yet then a > preparatory step is better than not having it. Yes sure. We will have something in 2.2. The question is what :) > > What have I missed? > > Perhaps its me who has missed the fact that 2.2 is still open for these > kind of things. Yes we still have more than one week before closing the release. We can try some changes in the build system. > If it were up to me, I think I'd just apply Marios latest patch series > (perhaps condence it somewhat) to get it over with, fine-tune later > if/as necessary. This is veering to the side of bikeshedding real fast. > > BTW, one noteworthy point is that in all of these related threads, > nobody absolutely nobody has spoken up for the current behavior of "make > install". Which makes me wonder if anybody is actually using it, and > whether all this is just worrying for nothing. Yes we can break some old behaviours. The T= option should be easy to simulate in a single target case.