[PATCH v5 1/1] build: add libarchive to external deps

[Srikanth Yalavarthi <syalavarthi@marvell.com>]

In order to avoid linking with Libs.private, libarchive
is not added to ext_deps during the meson setup stage.

Since libarchive is not added to ext_deps, cross-compilation
or native compilation with libarchive installed in non-standard
location fails with errors related to "cannot find -larchive"
or "archive.h: No such file or directory". In order to fix the
build failures, user is required to define the 'c_args' and
'c_link_args' with '-I<includedir>' and '-L<libdir>'.

This patch adds libarchive to ext_deps and further would not
require setting c_args and c_link_args externally.

Fixes: 40edb9c0d36b ("eal: handle compressed firmware")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Srikanth Yalavarthi <syalavarthi@marvell.com>
---
v5:
  - Updated as per review comments
v4:
  - Rebase over latest main
v3:
  - Add to libarchive ext_deps
v2:
  - Update ml/cnxk meson config
v1:
  - Initial patch

 config/meson.build  | 5 -----
 lib/eal/meson.build | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/config/meson.build b/config/meson.build
index 0968351740..250833d0a4 100644
--- a/config/meson.build
+++ b/config/meson.build
@@ -241,11 +241,6 @@ dpdk_conf.set('RTE_BACKTRACE', cc.has_header('execinfo.h') or is_windows)
 libarchive = dependency('libarchive', required: false, method: 'pkg-config')
 if libarchive.found()
     dpdk_conf.set('RTE_HAS_LIBARCHIVE', 1)
-    # Push libarchive link dependency at the project level to support
-    # statically linking dpdk apps. Details at:
-    # https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20210605004024.660267a1@sovereign/
-    add_project_link_arguments('-larchive', language: 'c')
-    dpdk_extra_ldflags += '-larchive'
 endif
 
 # check for libbsd
diff --git a/lib/eal/meson.build b/lib/eal/meson.build
index 9942104386..e1d6c4cf17 100644
--- a/lib/eal/meson.build
+++ b/lib/eal/meson.build
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ endif
 if dpdk_conf.has('RTE_USE_LIBBSD')
     ext_deps += libbsd
 endif
+if dpdk_conf.has('RTE_HAS_LIBARCHIVE')
+    ext_deps += libarchive
+endif
 if cc.has_function('getentropy', prefix : '#include <unistd.h>')
     cflags += '-DRTE_LIBEAL_USE_GETENTROPY'
 endif
-- 
2.42.0