[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] eal: resolve getentropy at run time for random seed

[Thomas Monjalon]

04/05/2020 16:13, Dan Gora:
> On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 5:04 AM Mattias Rönnblom
> <mattias.ronnblom at ericsson.com> wrote:
> > The make build is going away completely.
> 
> Well it's not going away for at least a year or two

It will be removed in 20.11.

> and that has
> nothing to do with the issues at hand here.  And I sure hope that
> someone actually writes some documentation for how to build third
> party applications using DPDK and meson before that happens because
> currently there is none.

meson provides a standard pkg-config file for DPDK,
so there is nothing specific to do.
Plus, our examples are using pkg-config to demonstrate it.

> But it's pretty clear the DPDK community
> doesn't really care about lowly "third party developers", so I'm sure
> that will not happen.

This is a tough assumption.

I did not follow this whole discussion,
but it seems Luca, Stephen and Mattias gave some replies.
If you disagree with their comments, I recommend doing a summary of the
discussion and request the DPDK Technical Board to give a decision.