[dpdk-dev] failed to build latest dpdk 1.8.0 on kvm virtual machine

[Mcnamara, John]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Vasiliy Tolstov
> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 1:47 PM
> To: dev
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] failed to build latest dpdk 1.8.0 on kvm virtual
> machine
> 
> I'm try to build dpdk 1.8.0
> 
> unpack sources
> sed -i 's|CONFIG_RTE_MACHINE="native"|CONFIG_RTE_MACHINE="default"|g'
> config/defconfig_x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
> export CFLAGS="-march=core2 -mtune=generic -pipe -O2"
> make V=1 config T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc make V=1
> MACHINE_CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
> 

Hi,

CFLAGS for DPDK are usually set via EXTRA_CFLAGS. Try the following as a final set after the other config above:

EXTRA_CFLAGS="-march=core2 -mtune=generic -pipe -O2" MACHINE_CFLAGS=$EXTRA_CFLAGS make V=1

It compiles DPDK 1.8.0 from source on my test env.

John