From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] build: improve error message for missing dependency
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 10:05:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1538032.sZLDVcAvc4@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180720132825.772-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com>
20/07/2018 15:28, Bruce Richardson:
> When building a driver or library and a required internal dependency
> is missing, the error message printed was:
>
> Tried to get unknown variable "shared_rte_<libname>".
>
> However, a better way to handle this is to catch the missing variable
> earlier and convert it into a proper message, informing the user
> that the required dependency is missing, and most importantly, what
> library or driver wanted that dependency.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Applied, thanks
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2018-07-20 13:28 Bruce Richardson
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