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

[Christian Ehrhardt]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 1:23 PM Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
> ---
>  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..2efff58e2 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  # user builder-independent baseline -march

Thanks for driving all the proper builder independent config Luca.
In this line I'd assume you meant "use" not "user" right?

Other than that:
Reviewed-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>

> +
>  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::
> --
> 2.20.1
>


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Christian Ehrhardt
Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd