All recent linux distro's - including RHEL 8 and Ubuntu 18.04 - provide a
pkg-config file for libpcap, and using other methods of finding the library
can cause issues when cross-compiling, so we can limit build support for
pcap versions without a .pc file.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com>
---
config/meson.build | 8 +-------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/config/meson.build b/config/meson.build
index 69f2aeb60..edc6c195a 100644
--- a/config/meson.build
+++ b/config/meson.build
@@ -163,13 +163,7 @@ if libbsd.found()
endif
# check for pcap
-pcap_dep = dependency('pcap', required: false)
-if pcap_dep.found()
- # pcap got a pkg-config file only in 1.9.0 and before that meson uses
- # an internal pcap-config finder, which is not compatible with
- # cross-compilation, so try to fallback to find_library
- pcap_dep = cc.find_library('pcap', required: false)
-endif
+pcap_dep = dependency('libpcap', required: false, method: 'pkg-config')
if pcap_dep.found() and cc.has_header('pcap.h', dependencies: pcap_dep)
dpdk_conf.set('RTE_PORT_PCAP', 1)
dpdk_extra_ldflags += '-lpcap'
--
2.25.1
