[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc/guides: remove dependency on make build system

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Wed Jul 22 14:59:49 CEST 2020


On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 02:45:54PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 21/07/2020 17:39, Bruce Richardson:
> > When building the DPDK guide documents, the DPDK version information was
> > pulled using "make showversion", which meant there was a dependency on
> > the DPDK make-based build system. Change this to just read the data from
> > the VERSION file in the root directory.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> > ---
> > NOTE: When make build system is completed removed, we can change the
> > relative path to the VERSION file i.e. "../../", to instead pull the
> > path from "MESON_SOURCE_ROOT" in the environment, which should be more
> > robust.
> 
> Yes it would be a bit better.
> If we merge this patch in 20.08, we'll forget about this improvement :)
> I suggest waiting 20.11 to merge the definitive improvement.
> 
I'd prefer now, but I can be patient, I suppose. :-)


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