Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 7/7] devtools: expand meson cross compiling coverage

[Gavin Hu <Gavin.Hu@arm.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2018 6:45 PM
> To: Gavin Hu <Gavin.Hu@arm.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; stable@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 7/7] devtools: expand meson cross
> compiling coverage
>
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 05:51:27PM +0800, Gavin Hu wrote:
> > The default test script covers only default host cc compiler, either
> > gcc or clang, the fix is to cover both, gcc and clang. And also the
> > build dirs are changed to *-host-$c, indicating the difference of cc used.
> >
> > Fixes: a55277a788 ("devtools: add test script for meson builds")
> > Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Phil Yang <phil.yang@arm.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Song Zhu <song.zhu@arm.com>
> > ---
> Given that the only native code we have in a cross-build is pmdinfogen, doing
> two copies of each cross-build seems overkill, and makes the test longer than
> it should be. I suggest that we just do one of the cross-builds, e.g. the generic
> armv8 one, for both clang and gcc, and do the others only once.
>
> /Bruce
[Gavin Hu] I submitted a new v8 patch for this, thanks, please help review again.
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