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From: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] doc: add cross compile part for
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 15:18:21 +0530
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-----Original Message-----
> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 15:47:35 +0800
> From: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> CC: gavin.hu@arm.com, Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com, steve.capper@arm.com,
>  Ola.Liljedahl@arm.com, jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com, nd@arm.com,
>  stable@dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH v3 3/3] doc: add cross compile part for sample applications
> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.11.0
> 
> External Email
> 
> Fixes: 7cacb05655 ("doc: add generic build instructions for sample apps")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/sample_app_ug/compiling.rst | 15 ++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/compiling.rst b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/compiling.rst
> index a2d75ed22..6f04743c8 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/compiling.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/compiling.rst
> @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ This section explains how to compile the DPDK sample applications.
>  To compile all the sample applications
>  --------------------------------------
> 
> -
>  Set the path to DPDK source code if its not set:
> 
>      .. code-block:: console
> @@ -93,3 +92,17 @@ Build the application:
> 
>          export RTE_TARGET=build
>          make
> +
> +To cross compile the sample application(s)
> +------------------------------------------
> +
> +For cross compiling the sample application(s), please append 'CROSS=$(CROSS_COMPILER_PREFIX)' to the 'make' command.
> +In example of AARCH64 cross compiling:
> +
> +    .. code-block:: console
> +
> +        export RTE_TARGET=build
> +        export RTE_SDK=/path/to/rte_sdk
> +        make -C examples CROSS=aarch64-linux-gnu-
> +               or
> +        make CROSS=aarch64-linux-gnu-

It should be make -C examples/l3fwd CROSS=aarch64-linux-gnu-, Right? as
without giving directory it builds the SDK only.

> --
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