[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/7] improve DPDK static builds with meson

[Thomas Monjalon]

30/06/2020 18:37, Stokes, Ian:
> > This series allows OVS to consume the DPDK libraries appropriately (static and
> > shared) and simplifies the build.
> > When building OVS with DPDK, without this patch, the linker would always pick
> > the shared libraries over static even after specifying the -Bstatic flag.
> > With this patch, no such behavior is observed. So, it would be very helpful for
> > the OVS community if this patch is merged in DPDK.
> > 
> > I would also ask this series to be back ported to 19.11 as OVS can immediately
> > consume it on the latest master instead of waiting on the next DPDK release i.e
> > 20.11
> 
> +1, if this would be possible to apply to 19.11 as a backport it would enable OVS to move quicker and update the OVS Travis as well as docs and build scripts rather than waiting for DPDK 20.11. Sunil has already been working on these changes I believe.
> 
> Alternatively if it cant be backported to 19.11, then possibly we could look at merging Sunil's patches to the dpdk-latest branch in OVS once makefiles are deprecated in DPDK master?

Why waiting for makefiles to be deprecated?
These patches are merged in latest DPDK, so you can proceed in OVS.