07/01/2019 17:55, Bruce Richardson: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 04:39:34PM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > On Mon, 2019-01-07 at 14:28 +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote: > > > However, in > > > conjunction with meson version checks, I believe this was done this > > > way > > > originally because of a meson bug which caused recursive dependencies > > > for > > > things like this to get duplicated many times in the build.ninja > > > file. > > > > > > https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/2150 > > > > > > If we take the approach of adding bsd explicitly using dependency > > > object > > > our minimum version needs to have the fix for this bug included. > > > > Ah that's not nice. Just verified, and it happens with dependency() as > > well as find_library(). It was fixed in 0.47.1. > > > > Yep, it was a right royal pain when I was doing the original work. Now that > there is a fix in, we can do cleanups like you suggest if we are prepared > to bump our minimum version. > > I'll refer back to the key question here: > "Is it reasonable to ask users compiling DPDK to pull meson from pip rather > than using the distro built-in version?" > [Adding techboard on CC, in the hopes they might have some thoughts] > > If it is ok for most folks, and personally I don't think it's a big deal, > then that gives us a faster path forward. If not, we raise the minimum more > slowly, and keep the existing way of managing the dependencies for a while > longer. Worst case, I'd still hope by 19.11 LTS for us to have minimum > 0.47.1 to have the fix in question.
Please, could you describe what are the meson versions in major distros?
