Re: [PATCH v13 2/6] doc: add a guide doc for cross compiling from x86

[Gavin Hu <Gavin.Hu@arm.com>]

Hi Ali,

Thanks for your comments, I submitted the v14, please check if your comments are addressed and any more are welcome!

Best Regards,
Gavin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ali Alnubani <alialnu@mellanox.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2018 10:26 PM
> To: Gavin Hu <Gavin.Hu@arm.com>; 'dev@dpdk.org' <dev@dpdk.org>
> Cc: nd <nd@arm.com>
> Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v13 2/6] doc: add a guide doc for cross
> compiling from x86
> 
> Hi Gavin,
> 
> Thanks for documenting these steps.
> 
> Comments are inline.
> 
> > +   cd numactl
> > +   git checkout v2.0.11 -b v2.0.11
> > +   ./autogen.sh
> > +   autoconf -i
> > +   ./configure --host=x86_64 CC=aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc prefix=<numa
> > + install
> > dir>
> 
> From ./configure -h:
> "--host=HOST       cross-compile to build programs to run on HOST [BUILD]"
> Shouldn't it be aarch64-linux-gnu?
> 
> Also I think it would be safer to use '--' with prefix, since I think the configure
> script might not throw an error for an invalid argument that doesn't start
> with '--'.
> 
> > +   make install
> > +
> 
> Regards,
> Ali