Please can you compare which libraries are built before/after your patch?
02/07/2025 21:30, Dylan Schneider:
> Hey Thomas,
> I retried a build when libpcap was absent and was able to reproduce the same
> errors as you did.
>
> Error: cannot find librte_pcapng.so.25.1 in
> dpdk-build/build-arm64-generic-gcc/install
> Error: cannot find librte_graph.so.25.1 in
> dpdk-build/build-arm64-generic-gcc/install
> Error: cannot find librte_node.so.25.1 in
> dpdk-build/build-arm64-generic-gcc/install
> Error: cannot find librte_pdump.so.25.1 in
> dpdk-build/build-arm64-generic-gcc/install
>
> These Errors are coming from ABI check: dpdk/devtools/check-abi.sh:49
>
> I see in this function that it is checking for the existence of these
> libraries, which will be absent when libpcap is absent. Is there a way to
> have the abi-check skip these libraries if they are not built?
> Or better question: How does the abi-check even know about these libraries if
> they are never built?
>
> Thanks!
> Dylan
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>
> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2025 8:28 AM
> To: Dylan Schneider <schne...@qti.qualcomm.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org <dev@dpdk.org>; Reshma Pattan <reshma.pat...@intel.com>;
> Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>; Jerin Jacob
> <jer...@marvell.com>; Kiran Kumar K <kirankum...@marvell.com>; Nithin
> Dabilpuram <ndabilpu...@marvell.com>; Zhirun Yan <yanzhirun_...@163.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] pcapng: allow any protocol link type for the
> interface block
>
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> Sorry I did not investigate, but there is probably a different installation
> of the pcap library.
>
> I have this in a config file:
>
> pcaparm=$deps/libpcap/build-aarch64/install # requires big changes in DPDK
> #export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:$pcaparm/lib/pkgconfig
>
> I don't remember what are the big changes required, and why it is disabled.
>
> Checking Meson, libpcap is indeed not found on aarch64:
>
> Run-time dependency libpcap found: NO (tried pkgconfig)
> Library pcap found: NO
>
> Can you check whether the error can be related to the absence of libpcap?
>
>
>
> 30/06/2025 15:50, Dylan Schneider:
> > Hey Thomas, just wanted to confirm, I see the ARM build passing in CI. Is
> > there a reason it would pass there but not on your dev machine?
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Dylan Schneider <schne...@qti.qualcomm.com>
> > Sent: Friday, June 27, 2025 11:46 AM
> > To: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>
> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org <dev@dpdk.org>; Reshma Pattan <reshma.pat...@intel.com>;
> > Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>; Jerin Jacob
> > <jer...@marvell.com>; Kiran Kumar K <kirankum...@marvell.com>; Nithin
> > Dabilpuram <ndabilpu...@marvell.com>; Zhirun Yan <yanzhirun_...@163.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] pcapng: allow any protocol link type for the
> > interface block
> >
> >
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> > Hey Thomas,
> > Thanks for the reply.
> > Can you tell me the build command you're using to produce those errors? I
> > have ran the builds on my test machine and cannot reproduce these. Thanks!
> > Dylan
> > ________________________________
> > From: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>
> > Sent: Friday, June 27, 2025 11:39 AM
> > To: Dylan Schneider <schne...@qti.qualcomm.com>
> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org <dev@dpdk.org>; Reshma Pattan <reshma.pat...@intel.com>;
> > Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>; Jerin Jacob
> > <jer...@marvell.com>; Kiran Kumar K <kirankum...@marvell.com>; Nithin
> > Dabilpuram <ndabilpu...@marvell.com>; Zhirun Yan <yanzhirun_...@163.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] pcapng: allow any protocol link type for the
> > interface block
> >
> > WARNING: This email originated from outside of Qualcomm. Please be wary of
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> >
> > 09/06/2025 23:19, Schneide:
> > > From: Dylan Schneider <schne...@qti.qualcomm.com>
> > >
> > > Allow the user to specify protocol link type when creating pcapng files.
> > > This change is needed to specify the protocol type in the pcapng file,
> > > DLT_EN10MB specifies ethernet packets only. This will allow dissectors
> > > for other protocols to be used on files generated by pcapng.
> > >
> > > Includes a breaking change to rte_pcapng_add_interface to add link_type
> > > parameter. Existing calls to the function have been updated to pass
> > > DLT_EN10MB for the link type argument.
> > >
> > > Fixes: d1da6d0d04c7 ("pcapng: require per-interface information")
> > > Signed-off-by: Dylan Schneider <schne...@qti.qualcomm.com>
> > > Cc: step...@networkplumber.org
> >
> > I doesn't pass compilation test on my machine:
> >
> > Error: cannot find librte_pcapng.so.25.1 in
> > dpdk-build/build-arm64-generic-gcc/install
> > Error: cannot find librte_graph.so.25.1 in
> > dpdk-build/build-arm64-generic-gcc/install
> > Error: cannot find librte_node.so.25.1 in
> > dpdk-build/build-arm64-generic-gcc/install
> > Error: cannot find librte_pdump.so.25.1 in
> > dpdk-build/build-arm64-generic-gcc/install
> >
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