Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] build: add note about make system deprecation

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 4/9/2020 11:57 AM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> When anyone uses the make build system, they are to be informed
> about upcoming plans to deprecate and subsequently remove that
> system and to use meson and ninja instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> ---
>  mk/rte.sdkbuild.mk  | 4 ++++
>  mk/rte.sdkconfig.mk | 4 ++++
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mk/rte.sdkbuild.mk b/mk/rte.sdkbuild.mk
> index b512de1ec..67d07a7ed 100644
> --- a/mk/rte.sdkbuild.mk
> +++ b/mk/rte.sdkbuild.mk
> @@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ CLEANDIRS = $(addsuffix _clean,$(ROOTDIRS-y) $(ROOTDIRS-n) $(ROOTDIRS-))
>  .PHONY: build
>  build: $(ROOTDIRS-y)
>  	@echo "Build complete [$(RTE_TARGET)]"
> +	@echo "==== NOTE ===="
> +	@echo "It is recommended to build DPDK using 'meson' and 'ninja'"
> +	@echo "Building DPDK with 'make' will be deprecated in a future release"
> +	@echo "=============="
>  
>  .PHONY: clean
>  clean: $(CLEANDIRS)
> diff --git a/mk/rte.sdkconfig.mk b/mk/rte.sdkconfig.mk
> index f538649f2..9a7ffbe9a 100644
> --- a/mk/rte.sdkconfig.mk
> +++ b/mk/rte.sdkconfig.mk
> @@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ else
>  config: $(RTE_OUTPUT)/include/rte_config.h $(RTE_OUTPUT)/Makefile
>  	@echo "Configuration done using" \
>  		$(patsubst defconfig_%,%,$(notdir $(RTE_CONFIG_TEMPLATE)))
> +	@echo "==== NOTE ===="
> +	@echo "It is recommended to build DPDK using 'meson' and 'ninja'"
> +	@echo "Building DPDK with 'make' will be deprecated in a future release"
> +	@echo "=============="

What do you think providing a link to meson documentation too?

>  endif
>  
>  $(RTE_OUTPUT):
>