On Fri, 2018-11-16 at 10:52 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Fri, 2018-11-16 at 10:26 +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 06:26:28PM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > Meson can generate the list of private dependencies of libraries > > > automatically for the pkgconfig file only since version 0.45.0. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <[email protected]> > > > --- > > > doc/build-sdk-meson.txt | 6 ++++++ > > > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > > > > > diff --git a/doc/build-sdk-meson.txt b/doc/build-sdk-meson.txt > > > index 508e2cb64..229398bb0 100644 > > > --- a/doc/build-sdk-meson.txt > > > +++ b/doc/build-sdk-meson.txt > > > @@ -203,3 +203,9 @@ From examples/helloworld/Makefile:: > > > > > > build: > > > @mkdir -p $@ > > > + > > > +NOTE: for --static builds, DPDK needs to be built with Meson >= > > > 0.45 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. > > > > Thinking about it more, this doesn't seem to actually be the root- > > cause of > > the reported problem. You said in the other thread that you > > reproduced the > > problem with v0.45.2 which is >= 0.45 > > > > /Bruce > > I think the documentation linked there is wrong - looking at the > release notes in the repository, it's 0.46 that mentions that new > feature, not 0.45: > > https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/blob/master/docs/markdown/Release > -notes-for-0.46.0.md#improved-generation-of-pkg-config-files-for- > static-only-libraries > > I'll check if I can repro with 0.46 to confirm
Yes I can confirm that it's 0.46 that actually fixes the issue, so I'll send a v2 with the updated version. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
