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| author | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2010-02-08 15:37:49 -0800 |
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| committer | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2010-02-08 15:37:49 -0800 |
| commit | bfe8e67ad595348f228938663956c3b8325997c5 (patch) | |
| tree | 92280e0ad9fd035952d97ef6337fb8aa3fd936a0 /INSTALL.Linux | |
| parent | 0d0f05b909b6428d44eb147bd4edd73782d2a137 (diff) | |
ovsdb: Fix support for systems where libpcre is not installed.
This is one of the loose ends that I intended to fix up and test before
pushing off my commits to add use of PCRE, but obviously I forgot.
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL.Linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.Linux | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.Linux b/INSTALL.Linux index c0344f23..65291186 100644 --- a/INSTALL.Linux +++ b/INSTALL.Linux @@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ you will need the following software: connections from an Open vSwitch to an OpenFlow controller. To enable, configure with --enable-ssl=yes. + - libpcre, the Perl Compatible Regular Expression library, is + optional but recommended. Without it, OVSDB will not be able to + validate regular-expression based contraints. + To compile the kernel module, you must also install the following. If you cannot build or install the kernel module, you may use the userspace-only implementation, at a cost in performance. The @@ -80,6 +84,9 @@ following software: - libssl compatible with the libssl used for build, if OpenSSL was used for the build. + - libpcre compatible with the libpcre used for build, if PCRE was + used for the build. + - The Linux kernel version configured as part of the build. - For optional support of ingress policing, the "tc" program from |