[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] build: add pkg-config validation

[David Marchand]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 4:16 PM Gregory Etelson <getelson at nvidia.com> wrote:
> The patch notifies about invalid pkg-config. Application that uses such
> pkg-config will receive wrong linker parameters. These parameters will not
> fail link procedure, but may produce invalid output and as the result,
> application will have unpredicted behavior.
> Optimal notification would be during application build procedure, but
> I cannot see how it's possible to interact with an external build.

Me neither, so I don't see the point in adding a warning the final
user won't catch.
Documenting this known issue seems enough.


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David Marchand