[Pkg-dpdk-devel] OVS cannot find DPDK

[Christian Ehrhardt]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 10:46 AM Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2020-08-31 at 23:57 +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > Dear DPDK package maintainers,
> >
> > When I build OVS, I get:
> >
> > configure: error: Could not find DPDK library in default search path,
> > Use --with-dpdk to specify the DPDK library installed in non-standard
> > location
> >
> > How can I fix this and resolve the FTBFS bug on OVS?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Thomas Goirand (zigo)
>
> Hi,
>
> I assume you refer to:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=966921
>
> This is strange - the last src:dpdk upload was on 2020-06-20, and the
> last src:openvswitch upload was on 2020-06-30, and everything built
> fine, and you can see from the buildd logs that it used the current
> version:
>
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=openvswitch&arch=amd64&ver=2.13.0%2Bdfsg1-12&stamp=1593532578&raw=0
>
> The reporter says it's not building on buildds, but in a custom
> environment on AWS, maybe something is wrong there? Or some other
> build-dep changed in the meanwhile that broke the autoconf check in
> openvswitch?
>
> http://qa-logs.debian.net/2020/08/02/openvswitch_2.13.0+dfsg1-12_unstable.log
>
> Christian, any idea? Maybe the PKG_CHECK_MODULES_STATIC goes wrong for
> some reason, so it falls back to try the old, deprecated -ldpdk?


I checked the last Ubuntu builds but it worked for us just fine as
well (a bit earlier than yours).

I've still had the latest DPDK in a PPA at [1] so I have thrown a
build of the recent 2.13.1 against it.
That build worked for the configure part that is in question here (it
seems to have linking issues later on thou).

Of bug 966921 is there any chance to get the config.log of it?
Since it seems non reproducible elsewhere that would be the next place to check.

@Thomas you say it fails on your laptop, does the config.log show
anything more useful about how it broke?

[1]: https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/4222/+packages



> https://sources.debian.org/src/openvswitch/2.13.0+dfsg1-12/acinclude.m4/#L322
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Luca Boccassi



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Christian Ehrhardt
Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd