Command Reference for Compiling Configuration Scripts

• To change the installation path and the default database directory:

  1	$ ../configure --prefix=<your-installation-dir> --localstatedir=<your-var-dir> --sysconfdir=<your-default-db-dir>

• To use shared libraries (building and linking to static libraries by default):

  1	$ ../configure --enable-shared

• If DPDK (DPDK 21.11) is required, add the --with-dpdk=shared option:

  1	$ ../configure --with-dpdk=shared

For more compilation settings, run configure --help or refer to the Open vSwitch official guide:

https://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/intro/install/general/