On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 06:49:47PM +0530, Jerin Jacob wrote: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 6:15 PM Bruce Richardson > <bruce.richard...@intel.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 01:29:52PM +0100, Ciara Power wrote: > > > It was decided [1] to no longer support Make in DPDK, this patch > > > removes all Makefiles that do not make use of pkg-config, along with > > > the mk directory previously used by make. > > > > > > [1] https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-April/162839.html > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Ciara Power <ciara.po...@intel.com> > > > --- > > > GNUmakefile | 17 - > > > Makefile | 4 - > > > > Open question from me: > > Do we want to leave a dummy top-level makefile that prints instructions on > > build with meson and ninja - or even runs a build using them if they are > > installed? > > Maybe we can keep "make tags" as well in top-level Makefile.
Is it better to point people directly to the script? My concern about having a makefile is that it may confuse people as to how to build DPDK. On the other side, there is a convenience aspect to having a makefile, so I'm open to being convinced either way.
