I completely missed that so thanks for pointing it out.

On the CentOS environment I don't have an easy way to update it right now
so I switched over to another host and am seeing similar behavior.  The
major deltas are listed below.

OS: Ubuntu 21.10
meson: 0.56.2
pkg-config: 0.29.2 (+ 1.7.3 via pkgconf)
gcc: 11.2.0

On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 4:20 AM Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 10:35:07PM -0400, Ben Magistro wrote:
> >    I've been working through some updates to the build system for TLDK
> and
> >    have been working through the different variants (system vs fallback +
> >    shared vs static).  I've been able to successfully build and run the
> >    unit test app for most of these combinations however, I haven't been
> >    able to get the system static combination to work successfully yet,
> >    OS: CentOS 7.9 + devtoolset-9 (gcc 9.3.1)
> >    DPDK: 21.11
> >    I built DPDK using `meson build` + `ninja -C build` using default
> >    options and installed using `ninja -C build install`.
> >    When configuring TLDK, I get an error indicating the static libraries
> >    cannot be found.  I'm still investigating this, but could use some
> >    assistance.  I wouldn't rule out an issue in the meson files for TLDK.
> >    [bmagistro@lvdi-01 tldk-system-static]$ meson build
> >    -Dpkg_config_path=/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig
> >    The Meson build system
> >    Version: 0.55.1
> >    Source dir: /home/bmagistro/github/tldk-system-static
> >    Build dir: /home/bmagistro/github/tldk-system-static/build
> >    Build type: native build
> >    Program cat found: YES
> >    Project name: TLDK
> >    Project version: 21.11.0
> >    C compiler for the host machine: cc (gcc 9.3.1 "cc (GCC) 9.3.1
> 20200408
> >    (Red Hat 9.3.1-2)")
> >    C linker for the host machine: cc ld.bfd 2.32-16
> >    C++ compiler for the host machine: c++ (gcc 9.3.1 "c++ (GCC) 9.3.1
> >    20200408 (Red Hat 9.3.1-2)")
> >    C++ linker for the host machine: c++ ld.bfd 2.32-16
> >    Host machine cpu family: x86_64
> >    Host machine cpu: x86_64
> >    Message: ## Building in Developer Mode ##
> >    Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (0.27.1)
>
> Can you try installing a newer version of pkg-config or pkgconf. We have
> previously encountered issues with the version of pkg-config installed on
> RHEL 7 and Centos 7. It does some reordering of arguments and flags
> that can break things under certain circumstances. See:
>
>
> https://doc.dpdk.org/guides-21.11/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.html#building-dpdk-applications
>
> /Bruce
>