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2015-03-20 11:16, Neil Horman:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 03:51:11PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > =09- build check with various options combinations
>=20
> The kernel does this with some special make targets (make allyesconfi=
g, make
> randconfig, etc).  They basically act as build time fuzzers and are v=
ery useful.
> I'm not sure that the DPDK build system is really condusive to that y=
et though,
> since its made up of static configuration files.  This may require so=
me
> build environment changes

Exact.
Maybe that it should be thought while trying to solve the dependencies
of the build configuration, =E0 la ./configure.
Adding some allyesconfig and randconfig options would be great.