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Building SPDK RPMs

To build basic set of RPM packages out of the SPDK repo simply run:

# rpmbuild/rpm.sh

Additional configuration options can be passed directly as arguments:

# rpmbuild/rpm.sh --with-shared --with-dpdk=/path/to/dpdk/build

There are several options that may be passed via environment as well:

DEPS - Install all needed dependencies for building RPM packages. Default: "yes"
MAKEFLAGS - Flags passed to make
RPM_RELEASE - Target release version of the RPM packages. Default: 1
REQUIREMENTS - Extra set of RPM dependencies if deemed as needed
SPDK_VERSION - SPDK version. Default: currently checked out tag
GEN_SPEC - Orders rpm.sh to only generate a valid .spec and print it on stdout. The content of the .spec is determined based mainly on the ./configure cmdline passed to rpm.sh.
USE_DEFAULT_DIRS - Normally, rpm.sh will order rpmbuild to build under customizable set of directories. Since this may be not desired, especially when used together with GEN_SPEC, this option will preserve the default set of directories.

# DEPS=no MAKEFLAGS="-d -j1" rpmbuild/rpm.sh --with-shared

By default, all RPM packages should be created under $HOME directory of the target user:

# printf '%s\n' /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/*
/root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/spdk-devel-v21.01-1.x86_64.rpm
/root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/spdk-dpdk-libs-v21.01-1.x86_64.rpm
/root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/spdk-libs-v21.01-1.x86_64.rpm
/root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/spdk-v21.01-1.x86_64.rpm
#

spdk - provides all the binaries, common tooling, etc.
spdk-devel - provides development files
spdk-libs - provides target lib, .pc files (–with-shared)
spdk-dpdk-libs - provides dpdk lib files (–with-shared|–with-dpdk)

Special case for dpdk-devel

When rpm.sh finds a bare –with-dpdk argument on the cmdline it will try to adjust the behavior of the rpmbuild to make sure only SPDK RPMs are built. Since this argument requests SPDK to be built against installed DPDK (e.g. dpdk-devel package) the spdk-dpdk-libs RPM won't be included. Moreover, the .spec will be armed with a build requirement to make sure dpdk-devel is present on the building system. The minimum required version of dpdk-devel is set to 19.11.