On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 11:44:03AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 07/01/2019 19:21, Stephen Hemminger: > > I recently bumped into NFF-go which probably will have problems with meson > > build. > > It puts dpdk and pktgen-dpdk in as git submodules and then builds it all > > together > > with Go environment. > > You mean they must switch to meson and use DPDK discovery with pkg-config? > Do you see any blocker? > > > The current model is a nuisance because can't get Mellanox drivers for > > Azure by > > default. > > In the make build system, some libraries (like Mellanox drivers) must be > explicitly enabled by modifying the .config file before running make. > There should be a hook in the app build system to allow some tuning.
One thing I've been considering for our meson build system, is possibly adding in a config option to explicitly request specific drivers to be built and error out if they cannot be. Right now, it's all based on what is available - there is no way to tell meson to error out the config if the dependencies for the Mellanox drivers, or the QAT crypto drivers are missing. Thoughts (and patches :-)) welcome. /Bruce
