Performing the Compilation and Installation

Go to the root directory of the source code.
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cd /home/source_code/openvswitch-2.14.2

Compile and install Open vSwitch.

./boot.sh
./configure CFLAGS="-march=armv8-a+lse+crc -fstack-protector-all -fstack-protector-strong -g" --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --libdir=/lib64 --enable-ssl --enable-shared --enable-Werror 
make -j 96 && make install

Generally, you can use the preceding method to perform compilation and configuration. If you need to customize the configuration (such as customizing the installation path and specifying the database file path), perform operations by following instructions in Command Reference for Compiling Configuration Scripts.

Configure Open vSwitch to be started as a service.

cd rhel/
cp etc_init.d_openvswitch /etc/init.d/openvswitch
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/openvswitch
mkdir /var/log/openvswitch
ln -s /usr/lib64/libevent-2.1.so.6 /usr/lib64/libevent-2.0.so.5
ln -s /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.1 /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.10

Start the service.
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service openvswitch start

Parent topic: Installing Open vSwitch