Hey Thomas,
I retried a build when libpcap was absent and was able to reproduce the same errors as you did.
Error: cannot find librte_pcapng.so.25.1 in dpdk-build/build-arm64-generic-gcc/install Error: cannot find librte_graph.so.25.1 in dpdk-build/build-arm64-generic-gcc/install Error: cannot find librte_node.so.25.1 in dpdk-build/build-arm64-generic-gcc/install Error: cannot find librte_pdump.so.25.1 in dpdk-build/build-arm64-generic-gcc/install
These Errors are coming from ABI check: dpdk/devtools/check-abi.sh:49

I see in this function that it is checking for the existence of these libraries, which will be absent when libpcap is absent. Is there a way to have the abi-check skip these libraries if they are not built?
Or better question: How does the abi-check even know about these libraries if they are never built?

Thanks!
Dylan



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Sorry I did not investigate, but there is probably a different installation of the pcap library.

I have this in a config file:

pcaparm=$deps/libpcap/build-aarch64/install # requires big changes in DPDK
#export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:$pcaparm/lib/pkgconfig

I don't remember what are the big changes required, and why it is disabled.

Checking Meson, libpcap is indeed not found on aarch64:

        Run-time dependency libpcap found: NO (tried pkgconfig)
        Library pcap found: NO

Can you check whether the error can be related to the absence of libpcap?



30/06/2025 15:50, Dylan Schneider:
> Hey Thomas, just wanted to confirm,  I see the ARM build passing in CI. Is there a reason it would pass there but not on your dev machine?
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] pcapng: allow any protocol link type for the interface block
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> Hey Thomas,
> Thanks for the reply.
> Can you tell me the build command you're using to produce those errors? I have ran the builds on my test machine and cannot reproduce these. Thanks!
> Dylan
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] pcapng: allow any protocol link type for the interface block
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> 09/06/2025 23:19, Schneide:
> > From: Dylan Schneider <schneide@qti.qualcomm.com>
> >
> > Allow the user to specify protocol link type when creating pcapng files.
> > This change is needed to specify the protocol type in the pcapng file,
> > DLT_EN10MB specifies ethernet packets only. This will allow dissectors
> > for other protocols to be used on files generated by pcapng.
> >
> > Includes a breaking change to rte_pcapng_add_interface to add link_type
> > parameter. Existing calls to the function have been updated to pass
> > DLT_EN10MB for the link type argument.
> >
> > Fixes: d1da6d0d04c7 ("pcapng: require per-interface information")
> > Signed-off-by: Dylan Schneider <schneide@qti.qualcomm.com>
> > Cc: stephen@networkplumber.org
>
> I doesn't pass compilation test on my machine:
>
> Error: cannot find librte_pcapng.so.25.1 in dpdk-build/build-arm64-generic-gcc/install
> Error: cannot find librte_graph.so.25.1 in dpdk-build/build-arm64-generic-gcc/install
> Error: cannot find librte_node.so.25.1 in dpdk-build/build-arm64-generic-gcc/install
> Error: cannot find librte_pdump.so.25.1 in dpdk-build/build-arm64-generic-gcc/install
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