[dpdk-dev] Mlx meson build

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Thu Jun 14 17:54:44 CEST 2018


On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 11:05:23 +0000
Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at mellanox.com> wrote:

> Thursday, June 14, 2018 11:35 AM, Thomas Monjalon :
> > Subject: Re: Mlx meson build
> > 
> > 14/06/2018 10:15, Bruce Richardson:  
> > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 03:14:16PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:  
> > > > Is there any chance of getting MLX drivers to build with meson?
> > > > It seems like it should be possible to always build with meson if rdma-  
> > core is present.  
> > > > The meson build language has ways of checking for necessary  
> > dependencies.  
> > > >
> > > > Are you working on it for 18.08? or shall I bodge something together.  
> > >
> > > I'm not actively working on it, due to time constraints but I'm happy
> > > enough to review and help out others with the work.  
> > 
> > Same for me. I would be happy to work on it but I cannot commit as I am
> > already very busy for this month.  
> 
> Currently it is not in the plan for 18.08, we hope to get it in 18.11.
> Besides of it being simpler to write make files and faster to compile is there urgent need from your side? 

It is one of the pieces missing to do full meson cut over in 18.11.
Ran into it while trying to do faster builds for testing.


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