Patches has to be validated for meson builds. Updating documentation
for meson build steps in Checking Compilation category.
Signed-off-by: Vipin Varghese <vipin.vargh...@intel.com>
---
V2:
updated the meson build options - Bruce Richardson
---
doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
index a3d788024..df86c0e76 100644
--- a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
@@ -468,6 +468,12 @@ The recommended configurations and options to test
compilation prior to submitti
export DPDK_DEP_PCAP=y
export DPDK_DEP_SSL=y
+Compliation of patches has to be tested using meson::
+
+ ./devtools/test-meson-builds.sh'
+
+This will test for shared and static builds. If gcc arm cross compiler is
+installed, cross build is tested too.
Sending Patches
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2.17.1
