From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vipin Varghese Subject: [PATCH v1] doc: add meson build to contributing guide Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 10:26:33 +0530 Message-ID: <20181030045633.18859-1-vipin.varghese@intel.com> Cc: amol.patel@intel.com, stephen1.byrne@intel.com, Vipin Varghese To: bruce.richardson@intel.com, john.mcnamara@intel.com, dev@dpdk.org, marko.kovacevic@intel.com Return-path: Received: from mga18.intel.com (mga18.intel.com [134.134.136.126]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06D6010A3 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 06:00:14 +0100 (CET) List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Patches has to be validated for meson builds. Updating documentation for meson build steps in Checking Compilation category. Signed-off-by: Vipin Varghese --- doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst index a3d788024..494037778 100644 --- a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst +++ b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst @@ -468,6 +468,15 @@ The recommended configurations and options to test compilation prior to submitti export DPDK_DEP_PCAP=y export DPDK_DEP_SSL=y +Compliation of patches has to be tested using meson:: + + ./devtools/test-meson-builds.sh' + +The default build target is for shared library. Build can be modified for +static and cross build by + + * static by ``--default-library=static``. + * arm cross build use ``--cross-file=`` to override default path. Sending Patches --------------- -- 2.17.1