Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] add testing of libdpdk pkg-config file

[Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>]

On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 23:06:40 +0100
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:

> As part of the meson build, a pkg-config file for libdpdk is created, which
> allows apps to be compiled and linked against DPDK by taking the cflags and
> lib parameter from pkgconfig. The example app makefiles have been reworked
> to take account of this support, but the build of them against the .pc file
> was not regularly tested.
> 
> To rectify this, and give us greater confidence in the correctness of the
> .pc file, this set adds in the sample apps to the installation set for
> "ninja install" and then builds a subset of those apps against the
> pkg-config file to test it. In the process a small error when compiling
> the cmdline sample app using the .pc file was fixed.
> 
> Bruce Richardson (4):
>   examples: install examples as part of ninja install
>   examples: simplify getting list of all examples
>   devtools/test-meson-builds: add testing of pkg-config file
>   build: add libbsd to pkg-config file if enabled
> 
>  config/meson.build            | 10 ++++------
>  devtools/test-meson-builds.sh | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>  examples/meson.build          | 17 +++++++++++++----
>  meson.build                   |  2 ++
>  4 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 

My experiments with Ubuntu 18.04 showed the default version of meson
was too old (broken) and generated bad cflags.

Getting later one for Debian stable-backports worked.