[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] build: mention machine=default and its use in documentation

[Luca Boccassi]

On Mon, 2019-01-14 at 13:41 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> Document the new value, as it's useful for distributions and users
> who need to use a stable baseline -march
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
> Reviewed-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
> ---
> v2: fix typo, add commit body and reviewed-by
> 
>  doc/build-sdk-meson.txt | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/build-sdk-meson.txt b/doc/build-sdk-meson.txt
> index 29a8bd387..ab33ca82a 100644
> --- a/doc/build-sdk-meson.txt
> +++ b/doc/build-sdk-meson.txt
> @@ -87,6 +87,8 @@ Project-specific options are passed used
> -Doption=value::
>  
>  	meson -Denable_docs=true fullbuild  # build and install docs
>  
> +	meson -Dmachine=default  # use builder-independent baseline
> -march
> +
>  Examples of setting the same options using meson configure::
>  
>  	meson configure -Dwerror=true
> @@ -103,6 +105,9 @@ should be used to change the build settings
> within the directory, and when
>  ``ninja`` is called to do the build itself, it will trigger the
> necessary
>  re-scan from meson.
>  
> +NOTE: machine=default will use the minimum required -march on all
> architectures
> +regardless of the capabilities of the machine where the build is
> happening.
> +
>  As well as those settings taken from ``meson configure``, other
> options
>  such as the compiler to use can be passed via environment variables.
> For
>  example::

Ping - anything else I can do for this patch? Thanks!

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi