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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 01/17] build: add initial infrastructure
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On 09/13/2017 04:12 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
[...]
> +
> +# for static libs, treat the drivers as regular libraries, otherwise
> +# for shared libs, put them in a driver folder
> +if get_option('default_library') == 'static'
> +	driver_install_path = get_option('libdir')
> +else
> +	driver_install_path = join_paths(get_option('datadir'), 'dpdk/drivers')
> +endif

This is against hier, since:
"This directory contains subdirectories with specific application data,
that can be shared among different architectures of the same OS."
(from man 7 hier)

Please consider to use a subdirectory of libdir like the actual dpdk
instead.