Commit b6938efd authored Sep 07, 2018 by Lance Hartmann Committed by Jim Harris Sep 07, 2018

doc: clarify alternate dpdk options



Make clear that building with an alternate DPDK than the SPDK's
dpdk submodule is not limited to pointing only to a full DPDK
directory of sources, but also supports the ability to build
against pre-built libraries and includes provided by an
installation of the DPDK packages available from several
distro's.

Change-Id: I40cd8132e45dbd366a4c93c891a95e8952b6620d
Signed-off-by: Lance Hartmann <lance.hartmann@oracle.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.gerrithub.io/425003


Chandler-Test-Pool: SPDK Automated Test System <sys_sgsw@intel.com>
Tested-by: SPDK CI Jenkins <sys_sgci@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Walker <benjamin.walker@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Harris <james.r.harris@intel.com>

parent 1c79fadb

README.md

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		Users may wish to use a version of DPDK different from the submodule included
		in the SPDK repository. To specify an alternate DPDK installation, run
		configure with the --with-dpdk option. For example:
		in the SPDK repository. Note, this includes the ability to build not only
		from DPDK sources, but also just with the includes and libraries
		installed via the dpdk and dpdk-devel packages. To specify an alternate DPDK
		installation, run configure with the --with-dpdk option. For example:

		Linux: