Meson get_cross_property deprecated

[Bruce Richardson]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 01:54:25PM -0700, Tyler Retzlaff wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 11:20:12AM +0200, Morten Brørup wrote:
> > > From: Bruce Richardson [mailto:bruce.richardson at intel.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, 20 September 2024 11.08
> > > 
> > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 10:22:59AM +0200, Morten Brørup wrote:
> > > >    Hi Bruce,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >    Meson version 1.3.2 emits a notice that meson.get_cross_property is
> > > >    deprecated:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >    NOTICE: Future-deprecated features used:
> > > >
> > > >    * 0.58.0: {'meson.get_cross_property'}
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >    It seems to have been replaced by meson.get_external_property:
> > > >
> > > >    [1]https://mesonbuild.com/Reference-manual_builtin_meson.html#mesonget_
> > > >    cross_property
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Unfortunately, according to the docs, get_external_property is only
> > > supported from 0.54 onwards, so we can't update to use it until we do a
> > > meson minimum-version bump.
> > > 
> > > Cc: techboard
> > > Question for community & techboard: is it better to bump minimum version
> > > now in 24.11, or to wait till after the LTS release?  Thoughts?
> 
> keep in mind windows build requires.. meson 0.57.0 due to bugs in newer
> versions of meson.
> 
Yep, thanks for the reminder of that. I've set that as the minimum version
in my proposed patchset [1]

/Bruce

[1] https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20240920125737.1197969-2-bruce.richardson@intel.com/