[dpdk-dev] dpdk fail at build.

[yn h]

Downgrading to 0.59.0 helped to fix that error, but another error
occurred during ninja build.

[0/1] Installing files.


*ERROR:* Build directory has been generated with Meson version 0.59.0,
which is incompatible with the current version 0.60.0.

FAILED: meson-install

/home/ybuser/.local/bin/meson install --no-rebuild

ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 5:35 PM David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 11:30 PM yn h <yncraig123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I downloaded dpdk version 21.08 from
> > http://static.dpdk.org/rel/.
> >
> > Extracted and ran meson build.
> > During ninja build, I ran into
> >
> > FAILED: drivers/rte_common_cpt.pmd.c
> >
> > /usr/bin/python3 ../buildtools/gen-pmdinfo-cfile.py
> > /home/ybuser/dpdk-21.05/build/buildtools ar
> > /home/ybuser/dpdk-21.05/build/drivers/libtmp_rte_common_cpt.a
> > drivers/rte_common_cpt.pmd.c /usr/bin/python3 ../buildtools/pmdinfogen.py
> > elf
> >
> > ar: `x' cannot be used on thin archives.
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >
> >   File "../buildtools/gen-pmdinfo-cfile.py", line 17, in <module>
> >
> >     run_ar("x")
> >
> >   File "../buildtools/gen-pmdinfo-cfile.py", line 12, in <lambda>
> >
> >     run_ar = lambda command: subprocess.run(
> >
> >   File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 516, in run
> >
> >     raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
> >
> > subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['ar', 'x',
> > '/home/ybuser/dpdk-21.05/build/drivers/libtmp_rte_common_cpt.a']'
> returned
> > non-zero exit status 1.
> >
> > [508/2498] Compiling C object
> > lib/librte_pipeline.a.p/pipeline_rte_table_action.c.o
> >
> > ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
> >
> >
> >
> > The issue was bypassed when I edited the run_ar("x") to run_ar("p").
> >
> > Is this a known issue?
>
> It looks like https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836
> You can try downgrading meson.
>
>
>
> --
> David Marchand
>
>