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

• To specify a compiler for the compilation (by default, the default compiler in the environment variables is used for the compilation):

  1	$ ../configure CC=gcc-4.7.3

• To use the Clang compiler:

  1	$ ../configure CC=clang

• To provide a special flag for the compiler:

  1	$ ../configure CFLAGS="-g -O2 -mtune=tsv110"

• To enable the debugging option and address sanitization for OVS software development:

  1	$ ../configure CFLAGS="-g -O2 -fsanitize=address -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-common"

• To compile the Linux kernel module and run the kernel-based switch, add the --with-linux option path:

  1	$ ../configure --with-linux=/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build

For more compilation options, run configure --help or refer to the Open vSwitch official guide at https://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/intro/install/general/.