[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] build: document that Meson < 0.46 will fail to list private deps

[Luca Boccassi]

Meson can generate the list of private dependencies of libraries
automatically for the pkgconfig file only since version 0.46.0.

Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
---
v2: corrected version, minimum required is meson 0.46

 doc/build-sdk-meson.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/build-sdk-meson.txt b/doc/build-sdk-meson.txt
index 508e2cb64..3d8a69c29 100644
--- a/doc/build-sdk-meson.txt
+++ b/doc/build-sdk-meson.txt
@@ -203,3 +203,9 @@ From examples/helloworld/Makefile::
 
 	build:
 		@mkdir -p $@
+
+NOTE: for --static builds, DPDK needs to be built with Meson >= 0.46 in order to
+fully generate the list of private dependencies. If DPDK is built with an older
+version of Meson, it might be necessary to manually specify dependencies of DPDK
+PMDs/libraries, for example -lmlx5 -lmnl for librte-pmd-mlx5, or the static link
+step might fail.
-- 
2.19.1