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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/17] build: add initial infrastructure
 for meson & ninja builds
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 11:24:15 +0100
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On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 12:10:19PM +0200, Timothy M. Redaelli wrote:
> On 09/13/2017 04:12 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> [...]
> > +
> > +# for static libs, treat the drivers as regular libraries, otherwise
> > +# for shared libs, put them in a driver folder
> > +if get_option('default_library') == 'static'
> > +	driver_install_path = get_option('libdir')
> > +else
> > +	driver_install_path = join_paths(get_option('datadir'), 'dpdk/drivers')
> > +endif
> 
> This is against hier, since:
> "This directory contains subdirectories with specific application data,
> that can be shared among different architectures of the same OS."
> (from man 7 hier)
> 
> Please consider to use a subdirectory of libdir like the actual dpdk
> instead.

Sure. Using "$libdir/dpdk/drivers" work well, or is there a better choice?