Re: [PATCH] build: bump meson version to remove warnings

[Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>]

On 05/12/2025 12:28, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2025 at 12:13:01PM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>> The build of DPDK now uses features from version 0.6 of meson, which is
>> greater than the current minimum of 0.57.2. Although these features are
>> non-critical, they do cause warnings to be emitted on build. Increase
>> minimum meson version to 0.61 (== version in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS) to remove
>> these warnings.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
>> ---
>>  meson.build | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
> With this patch, and the previously submitted patchset for assigning test
> cases to the various categories/suites, all warnings in the meson
> configuration stage should now be gone.
> 
> In terms of the specific version, as noted above I chose the version of
> meson present in Ubuntu 22.04 as a reasonable baseline. Both debian stable,
> and debian old-stable have newer versions than that in them. For the RHEL
> line, I'm not sure what the baseline is, but I believe that RHEL 8 shipped
> originally with a meson version even older than 0.57, so moving to a later
> one I hope doesn't matter. [I wasn't easily able to find out from Google
> what the current meson version in RHEL 8/9/10 is]
> 

fyi - RHEL-9 has 0.63.3, RHEL-10 has 1.4.1

> Regards,
> /Bruce
>