[dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH] replace DPDK config and build system

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed,  7 Jun 2017 11:47:42 +0100
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:

> The prototype is incomplete, but it does build a reasonable number of our
> libraries, some unit tests, the i40e PMD and the testpmd binary, and I have
> successfully passed traffic using testpmd from the build. Some things are
> not fully correct, e.g. static builds aren't working right now, as I haven't
> correctly done all the dependency tracking, I think, and the cpu flag
> detection has issues. It also has only been tried on x86_64 linux, on a
> couple of systems, so YMMV. However, I feel it's a reasonable enough start
> point to show what we might be able to achieve.

Remember that in many cases the build system and the target system are different.
One of the problems with previous DPDK builds where build system was on bare metal
but deployment target was on a more limited VM environment. I sweated through
lots of  pain on that.