On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 02:56:36PM +0800, Jianbo Liu wrote:
> The 03/21/2017 06:43, Hemant Agrawal wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jianbo Liu [mailto:jianbo....@arm.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 10:55 AM
> > > To: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agra...@nxp.com>
> > > Cc: b...@ovn.org; d...@openvswitch.org
> > > Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v2] netdev-dpdk: fix ARM cross compilation
> > > failure
> > >
> > > The 03/20/2017 16:43, Hemant Agrawal wrote:
> > > > configure with_dpdk and cross compile fails with:
> > > > "configure: error: cannot check for file existence when cross
> > > > compiling"
> > > >
> > > > This is due to the usages of AC_CHECK_FILES.
> > > >
> > > > AC_CHECK_FILES only works when not cross compiling. It test a feature
> > > > of the host machine, and therefore, die when cross-compiling.
> > > >
> > > > The current patch put the check in condition, i.e. check only if not
> > > > cross-compiling.
> > >
> > > There are many defines in rte_config.h, which are important for compiling,
> > > whether it is cross compiling or not. So I disagree to remove the 
> > > checking.
> >
> >  [Hemant] can you suggest an alternate to make it work?
> 
> Copy, or execute "make config T=your_config_file" to create rte_config.h
> in your dpdk source directory.

I think that this thread reflects a misunderstanding.  I posted a patch
that matches my own understanding of the problem:
https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-April/330941.html
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