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

[Luca Boccassi]

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::
-- 
2.20.1