[PATCH v2] build: increase minimum meson version to 0.53.2

[David Marchand]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 9:13 PM David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 6:24 PM Bruce Richardson
> <bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > This patchset bumps the minimum meson version from 0.49.2 to 0.53.2.
> > Ideally, the minimum version should be 0.53 without a point release, but
> > some DPDK builds (mingw) are broken with 0.53.0 due to issue[1], fixed
> > by commit[2] in 0.53.1. Therefore we use the latest point release from
> > 0.53 branch i.e. 0.53.2.
> >
> > Some new features of interest which can now be used in DPDK with this
> > new minimum meson version:
> >
> > * can do header-file checks directly inside find_library calls, rather
> >   than needing a separate check.[v0.50].
> > * can pass multiple cross-files at the same time when cross-compiling
> >   [v0.51].
> > * "alias_target" function, to allow use to give better/shorter names
> >   for particular build objects [v0.52].
> > * auto-generation of clang-format [v0.50] and clang-tidy[v0.52] targets
> >   when those tools are present and config dotfiles are present.
> >   Similarly ctags and cscope are added as targets when those tools are
> >   present [v0.53]
> > * meson module for filesystem operations, so meson can now check for the
> >   presence of particlar files or directories [v0.53].
> > * "summary" function to provide a configuration summary at the end of
> >   the meson run [v0.53].
> >
> > Plus many other features. See [3] for full details of each version.
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/6442
> > [2] https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/6457/commits/8e7a7c36b579c11dd389fcb1152a4e8ead8b8782
> > [3] https://mesonbuild.com/Release-notes.html
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>

Applied, thanks.


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David Marchand