From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] drivers: improve pmdinfo generation when using meson
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:07:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180130150710.GA25924@bricha3-MOBL3.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180125111443.231999-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com>
On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 11:14:43AM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> Since meson 0.44, changing any file inside a PMD directory (quite
> correctly) triggers a full re-run of meson on build, rather than an
> incremental build as with earlier versions. This rerun is needed because
> we use "grep" in meson to search for files on which to run pmdinfogen, and
> changing any of those files means that grep and, therefore meson, needs to
> be rerun. [Previous versions of meson did not track this dependency on the
> grep command, and so did incremental builds only.]
>
> If, however, we take advantage of pmdinfogen's ability to use stdin and
> stdout instead of files, we can instead use a shell script to process an
> entire static archive and generate a single .c file from it. This
> eliminates the need for grep, and means that changes to a PMD file only
> need an incremental build - a significant time saving.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> ---
Applied to dpdk-next-build
/Bruce
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