DPDK "ninja install" issue

DPDK "ninja install" issue

[Templin (US), Fred L]

Hi, I am having trouble running "ninja install" while following verbatim from the documents.
I am on Ubuntu 22.04 and have downloaded dpdk-21.11.1. I also installed meson and ninja
using the appropriate "apt install" commands.

When I follow the instructions in the DPDK documentation, everything works fine up until
the "ninja install". I issue the following commands:

tar -xJf dpdk-21.11.1.tar.xz 
cd dpdk-stable-21.11.1/
meson -Dexamples=all build
cd build
ninja
sudo ninja install

But, when I run the "sudo ninja install" I get the following output:

"[0/1] Installing files.

ERROR: Build directory has been generated with Meson version 0.62.1, which is incompatible with the current version 0.61.2.
FAILED: meson-install 
/usr/bin/meson install --no-rebuild
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed."

I also tried the same commands with dpdk-22.03 and got the same problem.
Any ideas how to address this?

Thanks - Fred

RE: DPDK "ninja install" issue

[Templin (US), Fred L]

Never mind, I found the problem. On Ubuntu 22.04 there was apparently already some
form of installation of meson and ninja, but then I hit it again with "pip3 install". I have
seen many times now that on Ubuntu you need to be very careful not to use pip3 to
install something already installed by apt and vice-versa - the two packages seem to
have the ability to clobber the work done by the other in strange ways, and I am
surprised this doesn't cause widespread problems.

Bottom line - I was able to start from scratch and now have DPDK built and installed.

Fred

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Templin (US), Fred L
> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2022 1:41 PM
> To: users@dpdk.org
> Subject: DPDK "ninja install" issue
> 
> Hi, I am having trouble running "ninja install" while following verbatim from the documents.
> I am on Ubuntu 22.04 and have downloaded dpdk-21.11.1. I also installed meson and ninja
> using the appropriate "apt install" commands.
> 
> When I follow the instructions in the DPDK documentation, everything works fine up until
> the "ninja install". I issue the following commands:
> 
> tar -xJf dpdk-21.11.1.tar.xz
> cd dpdk-stable-21.11.1/
> meson -Dexamples=all build
> cd build
> ninja
> sudo ninja install
> 
> But, when I run the "sudo ninja install" I get the following output:
> 
> "[0/1] Installing files.
> 
> ERROR: Build directory has been generated with Meson version 0.62.1, which is incompatible with the current version 0.61.2.
> FAILED: meson-install
> /usr/bin/meson install --no-rebuild
> ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed."
> 
> I also tried the same commands with dpdk-22.03 and got the same problem.
> Any ideas how to address this?
> 
> Thanks - Fred