[Pkg-dpdk-devel] Any idea why OVS FTBFS ?

[Luca Boccassi]

Control: block -1 by 979229

On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 at 08:32, Thomas Goirand <zigo at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Dear DPDK maintainers,
>
> Do you have any idea why OVS currently FTBFS not being able to find DPDK
> in the configure phase?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Thomas Goirand (zigo)

Hi,

Christian and myself arrived at the same conclusion at the same time.
libpcap0.8-dev sets Libs.private: -ldbus-1 in its pkg-config file, but
it does not have a dependency on libdbus-1-dev, so when OVS autoconf
file uses the PKG_CHECK_MODULES_STATIC macro with dpdk it gets
-ldbus-1 added but the required files are not there in a minimal build
root.

I've opened a bug and a MR:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=979229
https://salsa.debian.org/rfrancoise/libpcap/-/merge_requests/2

If there is an urgent upload needed, as a temporary workaround
openvswitch could build-depend on libdbus-1-dev. But I wouldn't think
a new upload is needed just to fix this.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi