On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 10:40:10AM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 03:36:18PM +0530, Truring Team wrote: > > Hi Team, > > > > I am facing one issue with dpdk 20.11 Release, compiled the l2fwd app with > > make static , its throwing following error while running the app: > > > > Problematic Use Case: > > cd dpdk-20.11/examples/l2fwd > > export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig > > *make static * > > ./build/l2fwd -l 0-3 -n 4 -- -q 1 -p 1 > > EAL: Detected 6 lcore(s) > > EAL: Detected 1 NUMA nodes > > EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket > > EAL: Selected IOVA mode 'PA' > > EAL: No available hugepages reported in hugepages-1048576kB > > EAL: Probing VFIO support... > > EAL: No legacy callbacks, legacy socket not created > > MAC updating enabled > > > > *EAL: Error - exiting with code: 1 Cause: No Ethernet ports - bye* > > > <snip> > > Can someone help me to figure out the root cause why this happening. > > > > It seems like the static libs for the drivers are not linked in for the > "make static" case. Can you please check the following: > > * What OS/distro are you using, and what is the pkg-config version? The > version of pkg-config included in RHEL/Centos is known to have some > issues in linking DPDK. Missed clarification - RHEL/Centos *7* only. RHEL 8 is fine.
> * What is the output when you run "pkg-config --static --libs libdpdk"
