[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] build: document that Meson < 0.45 will fail to list private deps

[Bruce Richardson]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 06:26:28PM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> Meson can generate the list of private dependencies of libraries
> automatically for the pkgconfig file only since version 0.45.0.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
> ---
>  doc/build-sdk-meson.txt | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/build-sdk-meson.txt b/doc/build-sdk-meson.txt
> index 508e2cb64..229398bb0 100644
> --- a/doc/build-sdk-meson.txt
> +++ b/doc/build-sdk-meson.txt
> @@ -203,3 +203,9 @@ From examples/helloworld/Makefile::
>  
>  	build:
>  		@mkdir -p $@
> +
> +NOTE: for --static builds, DPDK needs to be built with Meson >= 0.45 in order to
> +fully generate the list of private dependencies. If DPDK is built with an older
> +version of Meson, it might be necessary to manually specify dependencies of DPDK
> +PMDs/libraries, for example -lmlx5 -lmnl for librte-pmd-mlx5, or the static link
> +step might fail.

Thinking about it more, this doesn't seem to actually be the root-cause of
the reported problem. You said in the other thread that you reproduced the
problem with v0.45.2 which is >= 0.45

/Bruce