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authorChristian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>2017-07-14 08:36:39 +0200
committerBen Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>2017-08-07 11:42:14 -0700
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acinclude: Also support pkg-config for configuring dpdk.
If available use dpdk pkg-config info of libdpdk to set the right include paths. That for example, allows packagers to provide non default include paths in a common way (pkg-config). Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> Suggested-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst b/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
index b2b91d405..842cf1a33 100644
--- a/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
+++ b/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
@@ -124,7 +124,11 @@ has to be configured with DPDK support (``--with-dpdk``).
$ ./configure --with-dpdk=$DPDK_BUILD
where ``DPDK_BUILD`` is the path to the built DPDK library. This can be
- skipped if DPDK library is installed in its default location
+ skipped if DPDK library is installed in its default location.
+
+ If no path is provided to ``--with-dpdk``, but a pkg-config configuration
+ for libdpdk is available the include paths will be generated via an
+ equivalent ``pkg-config --cflags libdpdk``.
.. note::
While ``--with-dpdk`` is required, you can pass any other configuration