Downgrading to 0.59.0 helped to fix that error, but another error occurred during ninja build.
[0/1] Installing files. *ERROR:* Build directory has been generated with Meson version 0.59.0, which is incompatible with the current version 0.60.0. FAILED: meson-install /home/ybuser/.local/bin/meson install --no-rebuild ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed. On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 5:35 PM David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 11:30 PM yn h <yncraig...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I downloaded dpdk version 21.08 from > > http://static.dpdk.org/rel/. > > > > Extracted and ran meson build. > > During ninja build, I ran into > > > > FAILED: drivers/rte_common_cpt.pmd.c > > > > /usr/bin/python3 ../buildtools/gen-pmdinfo-cfile.py > > /home/ybuser/dpdk-21.05/build/buildtools ar > > /home/ybuser/dpdk-21.05/build/drivers/libtmp_rte_common_cpt.a > > drivers/rte_common_cpt.pmd.c /usr/bin/python3 ../buildtools/pmdinfogen.py > > elf > > > > ar: `x' cannot be used on thin archives. > > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > > > File "../buildtools/gen-pmdinfo-cfile.py", line 17, in <module> > > > > run_ar("x") > > > > File "../buildtools/gen-pmdinfo-cfile.py", line 12, in <lambda> > > > > run_ar = lambda command: subprocess.run( > > > > File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 516, in run > > > > raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args, > > > > subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['ar', 'x', > > '/home/ybuser/dpdk-21.05/build/drivers/libtmp_rte_common_cpt.a']' > returned > > non-zero exit status 1. > > > > [508/2498] Compiling C object > > lib/librte_pipeline.a.p/pipeline_rte_table_action.c.o > > > > ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed. > > > > > > > > The issue was bypassed when I edited the run_ar("x") to run_ar("p"). > > > > Is this a known issue? > > It looks like https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836 > You can try downgrading meson. > > > > -- > David Marchand > >
