[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: fix build on Windows with meson 0.58

[Thomas Monjalon]

01/07/2021 11:57, Bruce Richardson:
> On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 09:34:04AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > On Wed, 2021-06-30 at 19:22 +0300, Dmitry Kozlyuk wrote:
> > > The `doc` target used `echo` as its command.
> > > On Windows, `echo` is always a shell built-in, there is no binary.
> > > Starting from meson 0.58, `run_target()` always searches for command
> > > executable and no longer accepts `echo` as such on Windows.
> > > Replace plain `echo` with a Python one-liner.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: d02a2dab2dfb ("doc: support building HTML guides with meson")
> > > Cc: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> > > Cc: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
> > > Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> > > 
> > > Reported-by: Rob Scheepens <rob.scheepens at nutanix.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk at gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > 
> > Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
> 
> One small suggestion might be to move the "echo" command definition to
> buildtools folder in case it's wanted for use anywhere in the build at some
> point in the future. However, this patch is fine without that change too.

I did the move in buildtools/meson.build:
echo = py3 + ['-c', 'import sys; print(*sys.argv[1:])']

> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>

Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>

Applied, thanks