[PATCH] doc: discourage using meson 0.58 on Windows
Dmitry Kozlyuk
dmitry.kozliuk at gmail.com
Fri Nov 12 23:17:08 CET 2021
Meson 0.58 and above cannot build DPDK on Windows with clang.
Recommend the latest known working version
and warn about the issue and the affected versions.
Suggested-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk at gmail.com>
---
doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst b/doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst
index 8083227ea4..38b3068d7b 100644
--- a/doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst
@@ -64,7 +64,11 @@ A good option to choose is the MSI installer for both meson and ninja together::
http://mesonbuild.com/Getting-meson.html#installing-meson-and-ninja-with-the-msi-installer%22
-Recommended version is either Meson 0.57.0 (baseline) or the latest release.
+Recommended version is Meson 0.57.
+
+Versions starting from 0.58 are unusable with LLVM toolchain
+because of a `Meson issue <https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/8981>`_.
+
Install the Backend
-------------------
--
2.29.3
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