[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 13/14] doc: add to release notes to reflect removal of make

Ciara Power ciara.power at intel.com
Fri Oct 9 12:21:39 CEST 2020


Added an entry to describe the removal of the Make build system to the
release notes for 20.11.

Signed-off-by: Ciara Power <ciara.power at intel.com>

---
v6:
  - Fixed spelling in commit log.
  - Fixed formatting of release note entry to be split logically.
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst
index 808bdc4e54..acca7ce274 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst
@@ -156,6 +156,10 @@ Removed Items
 
 * Removed Python 2 support since it was EOL'd in January 2020.
 
+* build: Support for the Make build system was removed for compiling DPDK,
+  Meson is now the primary build system.
+  Sample applications can still be built with Make standalone, using pkg-config.
+
 API Changes
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-- 
2.22.0



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