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

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

On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 11:19:16AM +0000, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> 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
> 
Perfect, thanks for confirming. So 0.61 min seems fine then for RHEL instances.

/Bruce