Add in an official notice that the make build system is being removed in 20.11 and provide a link to instructions on how to build using meson and ninja instead.
Cc: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index a58a17946..ead7cbe43 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -11,6 +11,13 @@ here. Deprecation Notices ------------------- +* make: Support for building DPDK with "make" has been deprecated and + support will be removed in the 20.11 release. From 20.11 onwards, DPDK + should be built using meson and ninja. For basic instructions see the + `Quick-start Guide <https://core.dpdk.org/doc/quick-start/>`_ on the + website or the `Getting Started Guide + <https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/linux_gsg/build_dpdk.html>`_ document. + * meson: The minimum supported version of meson for configuring and building DPDK will be increased to v0.47.1 (from 0.41) from DPDK 19.05 onwards. For those users with a version earlier than 0.47.1, an updated copy of meson -- 2.25.1
