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

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

On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 10:59:23AM -0500, Patrick Robb wrote:
>    On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 10:43 AM Bruce Richardson
>    <[1]bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
> 
>      On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 10:35:53AM -0500, Patrick Robb wrote:
>      >    On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 4:02 AM Bruce Richardson
>      >    <[1][2]bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
>      >
>      >      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.
>      >
>      >    Right now we do build new images any time any DPDK dependencies
>      are
>      >    updated, including meson. That's done with the dpdk-ci template
>      engine
>      >    (an application that templates out Dockerfiles for DPDK CI
>      >    testing):
>      [2][3]https://git.dpdk.org/tools/dpdk-ci/tree/containers
>      >    However, to simplify we can just move to installing meson at
>      runtime in
>      >    all cases. We already have to do this sometimes (like when
>      testing with
>      >    an LTS that requires a different meson) so doing it in all
>      cases
>      >    wouldn't be too disruptive. And, of course the main point is
>      that that
>      >    would allow us to accomodate a version bump like this  without
>      >    rebuilding the CI images. Let me know if you have an opinion.
>      In any
>      >    case I will chat with the CI Lab students about it.
>      >
>      Having it installed at runtime would be definitely good.
>      The other thing I was considering is whether we actually need to use
>      the
>      minimum meson version for all build testing. If one or two
>      containers have
>      the minimum version that should be fine, and others can use the
>      distro
>      supplied version so long as its >= minimum.
> 
>    Okay, both of the options above sound good. From my end if I had to
>    choose I would just do the first solution (install meson at runtime in
>    all cases) because it keeps our process uniform across distro testing
>    and there is no "special" container. But, the second option sounds good
>    too so please let me know what you think is best.
> 

Go with your runtime solution, it's fine - and possibly better.