[dpdk-web] [PATCH] update quick start page

[Richardson, Bruce]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2020 9:50 AM
> To: Richardson, Bruce <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> Cc: web at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-web] [PATCH] update quick start page
> 
> 18/06/2020 10:21, Richardson, Bruce:
> > From: Thomas Monjalon
> > > --- a/content/doc/quick-start.md
> > > +++ b/content/doc/quick-start.md
> > > -  make
> > > +  meson -Dexamples=all build
> >
> > Do we really want building all examples to be part of the default
> instructions? It will lead to a longer build time?
> > I think we should give initial instructions just with meson build, and
> then afterwards show building examples.
> 
> How do you suggest is the best to compile examples in a second step?
> 	meson configure -Dexamples=all ?
> 
> 

No rather than an additional step, I think showing it as an alternative set
of instructions might work well. Something like:

"""
To build the DPDK libraries, drivers and test applications use:

meson build
ninja -C build

To include the examples as part of the build, the -Dexamples flag can be
passed to meson, with a comma-separated list of the desired examples, or
'all' to indicate all buildable examples. For example:

meson -Dexamples=all build
ninja -C build
"""