Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: fix build on Windows with meson 0.58

[Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>]

On Wed, 2021-06-30 at 19:22 +0300, Dmitry Kozlyuk wrote:
> The `doc` target used `echo` as its command.
> On Windows, `echo` is always a shell built-in, there is no binary.
> Starting from meson 0.58, `run_target()` always searches for command
> executable and no longer accepts `echo` as such on Windows.
> Replace plain `echo` with a Python one-liner.
> 
> Fixes: d02a2dab2dfb ("doc: support building HTML guides with meson")
> Cc: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> Cc: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Reported-by: Rob Scheepens <rob.scheepens@nutanix.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
> ---
> Sorry for the noise, sent to stable@ instead of dev@ first.
> 
>  doc/meson.build | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/meson.build b/doc/meson.build
> index 959606b965..abd7d70421 100644
> --- a/doc/meson.build
> +++ b/doc/meson.build
> @@ -11,5 +11,6 @@ if doc_targets.length() == 0
>  else
>      message = 'Building docs:'
>  endif
> -run_target('doc', command: ['echo', message, doc_target_names],
> +echo = [py3, '-c', 'import sys; print(*sys.argv[1:])']
> +run_target('doc', command: [echo, message, doc_target_names],
>      depends: doc_targets)

Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>

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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi