[ovs-discuss] ovs-dpdk:cannot link with dpdk

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 01:01:42PM -0400, Mussar, Gary wrote:
> The name of the dpdk library changed between dpsk-2.0.0 and
> dpdk-2.1.0. Ovs-2.4 builds against dpdk-2.0.0. You will need some
> patches to allow it to build against dpdk-2.1.0.

Since OVS needs such a specific version of DPDK, I wonder whether the
configure script should check the version number and verify that it's
acceptable?  I suspect that users aren't getting an easy-to-understand
error message when they use the wrong version.