[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 2/5] build: use dependency() instead of find_library()

[Thomas Monjalon]

12/02/2019 12:31, Bruce Richardson:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 12:15:43PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 06/02/2019 18:08, Luca Boccassi:
> > > Whenever possible (if the library ships a pkg-config file) use meson's
> > > dependency() function to look for it, as it will automatically add it
> > > to the Requires.private list if needed, to allow for static builds to
> > > succeed for reverse dependencies of DPDK. Otherwise the recursive
> > > dependencies are not parsed, and users doing static builds have to
> > > resolve them manually by themselves.
> > > When using this API avoid additional checks that are superfluous and
> > > take extra time, and avoid adding the linker flag manually which causes
> > > it to be duplicated.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
> > > Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> > 
> > This patch breaks compilation on my machine with a lot of strange errors:
> > 
> > from drivers/net/pcap/rte_eth_pcap.c
> > 
> > /usr/include/stdint.h:109: error: "__INT64_C" redefined
> > /usr/include/bits/stdlib-bsearch.h:32:13: error: cast discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type
> > /usr/include/pthread.h:682:6: error: 'regparm' attribute directive ignored
> > etc
> >
> Is this on Arch linux again? I just reverified these first two patches and
> they work fine for me on Fedora (I assume Luca probably tested them already on
> Debian) 
> 
> Anything unusual about your setup?

Nothing unusual. Just using the best environment ever ;)
I will try to debug it.