acinclude: Remove default library for DPDK.

The default DPDK library used before this patch in case pkg-config
fails to find libdpdk is only valid for make based DPDK builds.
Hence remove them.

As a consequence, now this error message [1] is thrown when pkg-config
cannot find libdpdk instead of proceeding to check for a faulty
pkg-config and reporting incorrect error message [2].

Also, update the documentation to export PKG_CONFIG_PATH since on some
systems, the default install path for DPDK libraries is not present in
the default search path of pkg-config.
Ex: for Fedora 32 default pkg-config search path:
  /usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig

while by default Meson installs DPDK libraries at:
  /usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig

[1] Package libdpdk was not found in the pkg-config search path.
    Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libdpdk.pc'
    to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
    Package 'libdpdk', required by 'virtual:world', not found

[2] checking for DPDK... no
    checking for faulty pkg-config version... yes
    configure: error: Please upgrade pkg-config

Also, update the build documentation for AVX512 optimization.

Fixes: 252e1e576443 ("dpdk: Update to use DPDK v20.11.")
Reported-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sunil Pai G <sunil.pai.g@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst b/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
index a595417ce..3a24e54f9 100644
--- a/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
+++ b/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
@@ -88,6 +88,19 @@ Install DPDK
        $ sudo ninja -C build install
        $ sudo ldconfig
 
+   Check if libdpdk can be found by pkg-config::
+
+       $ pkg-config --modversion libdpdk
+
+   The above command should return the DPDK version installed. If not found,
+   export the path to the installed DPDK libraries::
+
+       $ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/path/to/installed/".pc" file/for/DPDK
+
+   For example, On Fedora 32::
+
+       $ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig
+
    Detailed information can be found at `DPDK documentation`_.
 
 #. (Optional) Configure and export the DPDK shared library location
@@ -97,11 +110,9 @@ Install DPDK
 
    Exporting the path to library is not necessary if the DPDK libraries are
    system installed. For libraries installed using a prefix, export the path
-   to this library and also update the $PKG_CONFIG_PATH for use
-   before building OVS::
+   to this library::
 
       $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/installed/DPDK/libraries
-      $ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/path/to/installed/".pc" file/for/DPDK
 
    .. note::
 
@@ -152,7 +163,7 @@ has to be configured to build against the DPDK library (``--with-dpdk``).
 
    An example that enables the AVX512 optimizations is::
 
-       $ ./configure --with-dpdk=$DPDK_BUILD CFLAGS="-Ofast -msse4.2 -mpopcnt"
+       $ ./configure --with-dpdk=static CFLAGS="-Ofast -msse4.2 -mpopcnt"
 
 #. Build and install OVS, as described in :ref:`general-building`