[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/6] meson build improvements

[David Marchand]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 10:52 PM Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
>
> These patches make some improvements to the meson build, particularly
> for documentation. They also remove many, but not all warnings issued by
> meson e.g. warnings about newer features unsupported in baseline.
>
> The biggest change is to improve the handling of the guide html docs.
> The change here is more significant, and the doc build now uses a
> wrapper script around sphinx. This wrapper script allows us to output
> correct dependency information for the sphinx build in a .d file. This
> .d file is processed by ninja (not meson) on build, so that any changes
> to doc files trigger a rebuild to the guides using sphinx.
>
> For now, the two patches which remove the meson version warnings are
> CC'ed to stable for backport, theoretically this who set could be
> backported if so desired, as all changes could be considered fixes to
> some degree or other, and nothing introduces a whole new feature.
>
> Note: for completeness and simplicity, previously submitted patch
> http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/64189/ is included in this set, and will
> be marked superceded in patchwork.
>
> V4: fix build with older sphinx
>
> V3: Shorten the python code in patch 5, and ensure style compliance as
>     flagged by Aaron.
>
> V2: resend to correct email addresses

Tried this series in Travis.
It went fine through my own checks too.

But OBS is not happy with Debian 10, Debian Next and Ubuntu >= 18.04.
The packaging fails when ninja can't find the 'doc' target.


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David Marchand