[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 20.11 00/19] remove make support in DPDK

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Fri Aug 7 15:28:32 CEST 2020


On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 01:29:50PM +0100, Ciara Power wrote:
> As previously decided [1] and communicated via deprecation notice [2], the
> make build system is to be removed in the 20.11 release.
> 
> This patchset removes support for compiling DPDK with the legacy make
> build system. Some make support is maintained for example applications,
> where pkg-config is used rather than the legacy make method.
> 
> References to the make build system are removed from all documentation,
> please review to see if replacement meson instructions are needed in some cases.
> 
> [1] https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-April/162839.html 
> [2] http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=a5449d78d1413e7bd1d66f6e70884e46cfb5e673 
> 
> Ciara Power (19):
>   examples: remove legacy sections of makefiles
>   build: remove makefiles and mk directory
>   config: remove all config files used by make
>   buildtools: remove all scripts for use with make
>   doc: remove references to make in bbdev guides
>   doc: remove references to make in compressdev guides
>   doc: remove references to make in contributing guides
>   doc: remove references to make in cryptodev guides
>   doc: remove references to make in eventdev guides
>   doc: remove references to make in FreeBSD gsg guide
>   doc: remove references to make in howto guides
>   doc: remove references to make in Linux gsg guides
>   doc: remove references to make in mempool guides
>   doc: remove references to make in NIC guides
>   doc: remove references to make in platform guides
>   doc: remove references to make in prog guides
>   doc: remove references to make in rawdev guides
>   doc: remove references to make in sample app guides
>   doc: remove references to make in vdpadevs guides
> 
<snip>
>  535 files changed, 256 insertions(+), 18894 deletions(-)

Thanks for taking on this work.

I like those diff-stat numbers. Nearly 19000 lines fewer in DPDK!


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