01/04/2021 13:49, Bruce Richardson: > This RFC contains 5 changes/updates to the DPDK build and build files. These > updates all assume that the minimum version for DPDK has increased to at least > meson 0.49 as proposed in [1]. > > The changes in this set are: > 1. Use "continue" keyword, new in 0.49 to shorten and reduce indentation > levels > in the foreach loops when building library or driver components. > 2. For libraries, drop support for header-only libraries, which was added just > for the "compat" lib which had a single header, and is now part of EAL. > This > similarly reduces indentation levels and makes the code easier to follow > 3. Since the larger blocks of meson code in our repo is seeing massive > whitespace changes, take the opportunity to switch our indentation style > for > meson files from that of C-files using tabs, to Meson/Python style using > spaces. [More below on this for discussion] > 4. Remove the "librte_" prefix from all our library directories. While as > useful > cleanup, the main driver for this was that it simplifies the matching for > #5 > below. > 5. Add a "disable_libs" build option to allow the user to optionally not build > certain components. Include in this an explicit list of libraries which are > "known safe" to disable in the build. For now this is a short list of three > libs, all of which are safe because they are not buildable on FreeBSD. More > work is needed to expand this list in future. > > Of these changes, I expect #3 to be most controversial.
Did you choose April 1st on purpose?
