Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-techboard] [PATCH 2/2] build: use dependency() instead of find_library()

[Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>]

On Mon, 2019-01-07 at 18:45 +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 07/01/2019 18:03, Thomas Monjalon:
> > 07/01/2019 17:55, Bruce Richardson:
> > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 04:39:34PM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2019-01-07 at 14:28 +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > > > > However, in
> > > > > conjunction with meson version checks, I believe this was
> > > > > done this
> > > > > way
> > > > > originally because of a meson bug which caused recursive
> > > > > dependencies
> > > > > for
> > > > > things like this to get duplicated many times in the
> > > > > build.ninja
> > > > > file.
> > > > > 
> > > > > https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/2150
> > > > > 
> > > > > If we take the approach of adding bsd explicitly using
> > > > > dependency
> > > > > object
> > > > > our minimum version needs to have the fix for this bug
> > > > > included.
> > > > 
> > > > Ah that's not nice. Just verified, and it happens with
> > > > dependency() as
> > > > well as find_library(). It was fixed in 0.47.1.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Yep, it was a right royal pain when I was doing the original
> > > work. Now that
> > > there is a fix in, we can do cleanups like you suggest if we are
> > > prepared
> > > to bump our minimum version.
> > > 
> > > I'll refer back to the key question here:
> > > "Is it reasonable to ask users compiling DPDK to pull meson from
> > > pip rather
> > > than using the distro built-in version?"
> > > [Adding techboard on CC, in the hopes they might have some
> > > thoughts]
> > > 
> > > If it is ok for most folks, and personally I don't think it's a
> > > big deal,
> > > then that gives us a faster path forward. If not, we raise the
> > > minimum more
> > > slowly, and keep the existing way of managing the dependencies
> > > for a while
> > > longer. Worst case, I'd still hope by 19.11 LTS for us to have
> > > minimum
> > > 0.47.1 to have the fix in question.
> > 
> > Please, could you describe what are the meson versions in major
> > distros?
> 
> It was already listed by Luca in this thread (thanks Bruce).
> I looks like latest Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora have meson 0.47 or
> higher.
> 
> I vote for bumping to meson 0.47.

For the benefit of the rest of the tech board which was not CCed
directly in the original thread:

Debian 10 0.49
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 0.45
Ubuntu 18.10 0.47
Fedora 27 0.43
Fedora 28 0.45
SUSE Leap 15 0.46
FreeBSD 10 0.46
CentOS 7 0.47

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi