Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdklab] Re: [PATCH v4 1/6] drivers: cleanup meson build variable

[Jeremy Plsek]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 11:30 AM Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> wrote:
>
> 12/02/2020 16:18, Jeremy Plsek:
> > On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 10:04 AM Jeremy Plsek <jpl...@iol.unh.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 4:32 AM Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> 
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 12/02/2020 10:26, Xu, Rosen:
> > > > > I find some build error in patchwork.
> > > >
> > > > This is a failure in the unit tests, probably unrelated:
> > > >         https://lab.dpdk.org/results/dashboard/patchsets/9573/
> > > >
> > > > This is the error message:
> > > >         buildtools/meson.build:6:0: ERROR:
> > > >         Program(s) ['pkg-config', 'pkgconf'] not found or not executable
> > > >
> > > > I think we can ignore, this is clearly an issue in the setup.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > The windows guide does not mention needing pkgconfig to build dpdk on
> > > windows. The guide should be updated if this is the case.
> > > https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.html
> >
> > As an update, installing pkgconfiglite does make the build pass.
>
> I don't understand Jeremy; the issue is seen in Ubuntu.
> Please check the link above.
>
>
Oh, I only looked at the windows build fail, not the unit tests.
Apparently they both had the same issue. I will fix the unit test
system.