[ovs-dev] [PATCH] Installation steps correction for DPDK 2.2.

[Flavio Leitner]

On Fri,  5 Feb 2016 11:42:06 +0000
mweglicx <michalx.weglicki at intel.com> wrote:

> Missing step added to INSTALL.DPDK.md which prevents
> installation error message.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Weglicki <michalx.weglicki at intel.com>
> ---
>  INSTALL.DPDK.md | 20 ++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/INSTALL.DPDK.md b/INSTALL.DPDK.md
> index c601358..0928e66 100644
> --- a/INSTALL.DPDK.md
> +++ b/INSTALL.DPDK.md
> @@ -33,14 +33,22 @@ on Debian/Ubuntu)
>  
>       `CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_COMBINE_LIBS=y`
>  
> +   * Non IVSHMEM:
> +
> +     `export DPDK_BUILD=$DPDK_DIR/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc`
> +
> +   * IVSHMEM:
> +
> +     `export DPDK_BUILD=$DPDK_DIR/x86_64-ivshmem-linuxapp-gcc`
> +
>       Then run `make install` to build and install the library.
>       For default install without IVSHMEM:
>  
> -     `make install T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc`
> +     `make install T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc DESTDIR=$DPDK_BUILD/install`
>  
>       To include IVSHMEM (shared memory):
>  ake install T=x86_64-ivs
> -     `make install T=x86_64-ivshmem-linuxapp-gcc`
> +     `make install T=x86_64-ivshmem-linuxapp-gcc DESTDIR=$DPDK_BUILD/install`
>  
>       For further details refer to http://dpdk.org/
>  
> @@ -51,14 +59,6 @@ on Debian/Ubuntu)
>  
>  3. Configure & build OVS:
>  
> -   * Non IVSHMEM:
> -
> -     `export DPDK_BUILD=$DPDK_DIR/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/`
> -
> -   * IVSHMEM:
> -
> -     `export DPDK_BUILD=$DPDK_DIR/x86_64-ivshmem-linuxapp-gcc/`
> -
>     ```
>     cd $(OVS_DIR)/
>     ./boot.sh

The real change is just the addition of DESTDIR argument which could
have been, for example:
   make install T=x86_64-ivshmem-linuxapp-gcc DESTDIR=install

Anyway, the doc looks good after the patch.

Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl at sysclose.org>

BTW, this needs to go in branch-2.5 as well.

-- 
fbl