[dpdk-dev] meson build issue

[Bruce Richardson]

On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 01:57:14PM +0000, Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2019 7:21 PM
> > To: Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj at marvell.com>
> > Cc: dev <dev at dpdk.org>; Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>;
> > thomas at monjalon.net
> > Subject: [EXT] Re: meson build issue
> > 
> > On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 01:38:01PM +0000, Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran wrote:
> > > Anyone else facing this meson build issue in master?
> > >
> > > Installing
> > > /home/jerin/dpdk-next-eventdev/build-x86-default/meson-
> > private/libdpdk
> > > .pc to
> > > /home/jerin/dpdk-next-eventdev/build-x86-default/install-root/usr/loca
> > > l/lib/pkgconfig Running custom install script '/bin/sh
> > > /home/jerin/dpdk-next-eventdev/config/../buildtools/symlink-drivers-
> > solibs.sh lib dpdk/pmds-19.08'
> > > Running custom install script '/usr/bin/sh -c rm -f
> > $MESON_INSTALL_DESTDIR_PREFIX/share/doc/dpdk/guides/.buildinfo'
> > > Running custom install script '/usr/bin/sh -c install -D -m0644
> > $MESON_SOURCE_ROOT/doc/guides/custom.css
> > $MESON_INSTALL_DESTDIR_PREFIX/share/doc/dpdk/guides/_static/css/cus
> > tom.css'
> > > ## Building cmdline
> > > make: Entering directory '/home/jerin/dpdk-next-eventdev/build-x86-
> > default/install-root/usr/local/share/dpdk/examples/cmdline'
> > > pkgconf: unknown option -- define-prefix
> > 
> > What distro are you on? You probably need an updated copy of pkg-config or
> > pkgconf.
> 
> It is arch linux(rolling distro)
> 
> $ pkg-config --version
> 0.28
> 
> $ pkgconf --version
> 0.28
> 
Maybe pkgconf doesn't support that flag yet. If you install pkg-config
rather than pkgconf does it make the problem go away? (at least on ubuntu
when I tried it the two were mutually exclusive)

/Bruce