From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Boccassi Subject: [PATCH] build: document that Meson < 0.45 will fail to list private deps Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 18:26:28 +0000 Message-ID: <20181115182628.8114-1-bluca@debian.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: bruce.richardson@intel.com, thomas@monjalon.net, Luca Boccassi To: dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from mail-wr1-f67.google.com (mail-wr1-f67.google.com [209.85.221.67]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEB4A2BA1 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2018 19:26:32 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-wr1-f67.google.com with SMTP id u5-v6so16989563wrn.9 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2018 10:26:32 -0800 (PST) List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 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 --- 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. -- 2.19.1