Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] compat: merge compat library into EAL

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 01:53:20PM +0100, David Marchand wrote:
>    On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 1:28 PM David Marchand
>    <[1]david.marchand@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>    On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 12:12 PM Bruce Richardson
>    <[2]bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
> 
>      Since compat library is only a single header, we can easily move it
>      into
>      the EAL common headers instead of tracking it separately. The
>      downside of
>      this is that it becomes a little more difficult to have any libs
>      that are
>      built before EAL depend on it. Thankfully, this is not the case, so
>      there
>      are no big complications to the move.
>      However, to ensure that we don't later hit problems later with this,
>      we can
>      add EAL common headers folder to the global include list in the
>      meson build
>      which means that all common headers can be safely used by all
>      libraries, no
>      matter what their build order.
>      Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <[3]bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> 
>    Currently testing this patch, I just noticed some remaining traces of
>    librte_compat:
> 
>    Checked build with make and meson on rhel7.
>    --
>    David Marchand
>
Thanks, I'll check those out and do a V2.

/Bruce