Re: [PATCH] build: document that Meson < 0.45 will fail to list private deps

[Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>]

On Fri, 2018-11-16 at 10:52 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-11-16 at 10:26 +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 06:26:28PM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > > Meson can generate the list of private dependencies of libraries
> > > automatically for the pkgconfig file only since version 0.45.0.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
> > > ---
> > >  doc/build-sdk-meson.txt | 6 ++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/doc/build-sdk-meson.txt b/doc/build-sdk-meson.txt
> > > index 508e2cb64..229398bb0 100644
> > > --- a/doc/build-sdk-meson.txt
> > > +++ b/doc/build-sdk-meson.txt
> > > @@ -203,3 +203,9 @@ From examples/helloworld/Makefile::
> > >  
> > >  	build:
> > >  		@mkdir -p $@
> > > +
> > > +NOTE: for --static builds, DPDK needs to be built with Meson >=
> > > 0.45 in order to
> > > +fully generate the list of private dependencies. If DPDK is
> > > built
> > > with an older
> > > +version of Meson, it might be necessary to manually specify
> > > dependencies of DPDK
> > > +PMDs/libraries, for example -lmlx5 -lmnl for librte-pmd-mlx5, or
> > > the static link
> > > +step might fail.
> > 
> > Thinking about it more, this doesn't seem to actually be the root-
> > cause of
> > the reported problem. You said in the other thread that you
> > reproduced the
> > problem with v0.45.2 which is >= 0.45
> > 
> > /Bruce
> 
> I think the documentation linked there is wrong - looking at the
> release notes in the repository, it's 0.46 that mentions that new
> feature, not 0.45:
> 
> https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/blob/master/docs/markdown/Release
> -notes-for-0.46.0.md#improved-generation-of-pkg-config-files-for-
> static-only-libraries
> 
> I'll check if I can repro with 0.46 to confirm

Yes I can confirm that it's 0.46 that actually fixes the issue, so I'll
send a v2 with the updated version.

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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi