[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] mk: pass EXTRA_CFLAGS to AUTO_CPUFLAGS to enable local modifications

[Simon Kågström]

Hi Olivier!

Does this commit look OK now with the changes you proposed?

Thanks,
// Simon

On 2015-11-24 08:50, Simon Kagstrom wrote:
> We have encountered a CPU where the AES-NI instruction set is disabled
> due to export restrictions. Since the build machine and target machine
> is different, using -native configs doesn't work, and on this CPU, the
> application refuses to run due to the AES CPU flags being amiss.
> 
> The patch passes EXTRA_CFLAGS to the figure-out-cpu-flags helper,
> which allows us to add -mno-aes to the compile flags and resolve this
> problem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom at netinsight.net>
> ---
> ChangeLog:
> 
> v2:
> * Put EXTRA_CFLAGS after MACHINE_CFLAGS to enable overriding values
> 
>  mk/rte.cpuflags.mk | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mk/rte.cpuflags.mk b/mk/rte.cpuflags.mk
> index bec7bdd..4b30c6b 100644
> --- a/mk/rte.cpuflags.mk
> +++ b/mk/rte.cpuflags.mk
> @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
>  # used to set the RTE_CPUFLAG_* environment variables giving details
>  # of what instruction sets the target cpu supports.
>  
> -AUTO_CPUFLAGS := $(shell $(CC) $(MACHINE_CFLAGS) -dM -E - < /dev/null)
> +AUTO_CPUFLAGS := $(shell $(CC) $(MACHINE_CFLAGS) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) -dM -E - < /dev/null)
>  
>  # adding flags to CPUFLAGS
>  
>