[dpdk-dev] Projects depending on make (versus meson)

[Thomas Monjalon]

07/01/2019 19:21, Stephen Hemminger:
> I recently bumped into NFF-go which probably will have problems with meson build.
> It puts dpdk and pktgen-dpdk in as git submodules and then builds it all together
> with Go environment.

You mean they must switch to meson and use DPDK discovery with pkg-config?
Do you see any blocker?

> The current model is a nuisance because can't get Mellanox drivers for Azure by
> default.

In the make build system, some libraries (like Mellanox drivers) must be
explicitly enabled by modifying the .config file before running make.
There should be a hook in the app build system to allow some tuning.
Anyway, as you mentioned above, better to switch to meson.