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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 17:34:57 +0000
From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] build: allow to hide dependencies from
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On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 08:16:55AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> If a dependency is required for a driver build,
> but should not be exposed to the application (via pkg-config),
> it can be declared in the array hidden_deps.
> 
> The hidden_deps are used as internal dependencies,
> when building the shared library and the first stage of static library.
> The final static library does not include the hidden_deps
> because this library object is used to generate the .pc file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> ---
>  drivers/meson.build | 9 ++++++---
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/meson.build b/drivers/meson.build
> index 3f8749d0b7..4ecd17ee01 100644
> --- a/drivers/meson.build
> +++ b/drivers/meson.build
> @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ foreach class:dpdk_driver_classes
>  		# too, so that it can be reflected in the pkgconfig output for
>  		# static builds.
>  		ext_deps = []
> +		hidden_deps = []
>  		pkgconfig_extra_libs = []
>  
All parameters for drivers and libs need to be documented in the docs.

Thanks,
/Bruce