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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK install behavior Question
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On 10/02/2015 07:32 PM, Arevalo, Mario Alfredo C wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Working with the patchset to include new features to make install,
> some questions I missed to ask before:
>
> for example if you use only "make install":
>
> "T" variable is going to get "*" value and the
> makefiles are going to build all TARGETS,
>
> Is it an expected behavior?,
>
> and if you use "make install T=TARGET"
> (e.g. make install T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc)
> the makefiles are going to config, build and install dpdk,
> however the target just say "install", and is doing config
> and build again.
>
> is it and expected behavior too?.

Lets just say its behaving as documented:
http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/prog_guide/dev_kit_root_make_help.html#install-targets

Whether one would call it expected behavior is a whole other question, 
to me what it does is about the last thing I would've expected "make 
install" to do :)

	- Panu -