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From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2023 13:21:43 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: prefer installing using meson rather than ninja
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
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On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 1:19=E2=80=AFPM Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 01:13:15PM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 12:52=E2=80=AFPM Bruce Richardson
> > <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > After doing a build, to install DPDK system-wide our documentation
> > > recommended using the "ninja install" command. However, for anyone
> > > building as a non-root user and only installing as root, the "meson
> > > install" command is a better alternative, as it provides for
> > > automatically dropping or elevating privileges as necessary in more
> > > recent meson releases [1].
> > >
> > > [1] https://mesonbuild.com/Installing.html#installing-as-the-superuse=
r
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> >
> > Should we align the CI scripts?
> >
> Hadn't considered it.
>
> For them, it probably doesn't matter. This change is only really for
> someone building as one user and then doing a sudo install. The CI script=
s
> don't install system-wide so don't need any privilege changes.
>
> However, if you think our CI should just align with the practice in the
> docs, I can do a V2 with some CI changes too.

My concern is that we recommend something we are not testing.
So I'd prefer we have some minimal testing.


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David Marchand