Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] eal: remove exec-env directory

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

02/04/2019 22:04, David Marchand:
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 9:58 PM Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> wrote:
> > On 4/2/2019 8:55 PM, David Marchand wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 9:52 PM Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> > wrote:
> > >> On 4/2/2019 8:46 PM, David Marchand wrote:
> > >>> Bruce, while testing with meson, I noticed this:
> > >>> kernel/linux/kni/meson.build:16: WARNING: Passed invalid keyword
> > argument
> > >>> "console".
> > >>> WARNING: This will become a hard error in the future.
> > >>> WARNING: Unknown keyword arguments in target rte_kni: console
> > >>
> > >> I am not seeing this...
> > >>
> > >
> > > Ok, might be my setup:
> > > [dmarchan@dmarchan dpdk]$ meson --version
> > > 0.47.2
> > >
> > > What should I check ?
> >
> > I have '0.50.0', but no idea what to check, wait Bruce :) ?
> 
> Looking at the doc..
> 3 ``pip`` tool, e.g. ``pip3 install meson``. Version 0.42 of meson is
> recommended - if the version packaged is too old, the latest version is
> generally available from "pip".
> 
> Later:
> NOTE: for --static builds, DPDK needs to be built with Meson >= 0.46 in
> order to
> fully generate the list of private dependencies. If DPDK is built with an
> older
> version of Meson, it might be necessary to manually specify dependencies of
> DPDK
> PMDs/libraries, for example -lmlx5 -lmnl for librte-pmd-mlx5, or the static
> link
> step might fail.
> 
> And I found this:
> meson.build:    meson_version: '>= 0.47.1'

There is a miss of doc update in this patch:
	http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=eded3f928c74

The minimum version is really 0.47.1.