From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>, dpdk stable <stable@dpdk.org>,
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] install: fix flattening of examples directory
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 17:42:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201110174231.GR1641@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJFAV8w=NOd5nVSbt4=5ogAjC5C3q9Cp_SCu370=6Cvo3Ht2Jw@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 06:33:03PM +0100, David Marchand wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 6:08 PM Bruce Richardson
> <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > By installing the examples one-by-one in a loop in the examples
> > meson.build file we effectively flatted out the structure of the examples
>
> flattened*
>
> > folder and omitted some common and shared subfolders that were never
> > directly built. Instead, we can remove the loop and just have the whole
> > "examples" folder installed as-is in a single statement, preserving its
> > directory structure, and thereby fixing the build of a number of the
> > examples.
>
> It seems wrong to provide all examples without looking at all_examples.
> We would provide examples that can't link against the available dpdk libraries.
>
Yes, let me think on this a bit about what is best to do, or how to manage
it. I'll try and get a v2 tomorrow.
For older releases with "make" buildsystem, did we provide an installation
method for examples, because I can't think of how we handled this fact
there?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-10 17:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-10 17:08 Bruce Richardson
2020-11-10 17:09 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-11-10 17:14 ` David Marchand
2020-11-10 17:33 ` David Marchand
2020-11-10 17:42 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2020-11-11 15:56 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 1/2] examples: fix flattening directory layout on install Bruce Richardson
2020-11-11 17:48 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 1/4] " Bruce Richardson
2020-11-11 17:48 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 2/4] examples/l2fwd-keepalive: skip build when no librt Bruce Richardson
[not found] ` <20201112094142.1781861-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com>
2020-11-12 9:41 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v4 1/4] examples: fix flattening directory layout on install Bruce Richardson
2020-11-12 9:41 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v4 2/4] examples/l2fwd-keepalive: skip build when no librt Bruce Richardson
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