[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] build: improve error message for missing dependency

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Thu Jul 26 10:05:42 CEST 2018


20/07/2018 15:28, Bruce Richardson:
> When building a driver or library and a required internal dependency
> is missing, the error message printed was:
> 
>     Tried to get unknown variable "shared_rte_<libname>".
> 
> However, a better way to handle this is to catch the missing variable
> earlier and convert it into a proper message, informing the user
> that the required dependency is missing, and most importantly, what
> library or driver wanted that dependency.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>

Applied, thanks





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