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

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 01:59:19PM -0500, Patrick Robb wrote:
>    Thanks David for the CC. We need to rebuild all of our DPDK
>    container images for the distro build testing etc. which takes some
>    time. We should be ready early next week.
> 

Is rebuilding all container images something that needs to be done every
time we do a minimum meson version bump? If so, we probably need to look to
take steps to make things easier to do.

/Bruce

>    On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 3:32 AM David Marchand
>    <[1]david.marchand@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>      Hello,
>      On Fri, 5 Dec 2025 at 13:28, Bruce Richardson
>      <[2]bruce.richardson@intel.com> 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 <[3]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]
>      Cc: Timothy for .rpm distributions, Luca for .deb.
>      I prefer we get some acks from distributions people.
>      Also, this patch requires coordination with the CI guys (as can be
>      seen in patchwork, many envs are using old versions of meson).
>      --
>      David Marchand
> 
> References
> 
>    1. mailto:david.marchand@redhat.com
>    2. mailto:bruce.richardson@intel.com
>    3. mailto:bruce.richardson@intel.com