2021-11-01 17:03 (UTC+0000), Bruce Richardson:
> Meson 0.60 switched the format of uninstalled static libraries
> to thin archives, that is, they contain only paths to object files,
> not the files themselves. Files cannot be extracted in this case,
> resulting in build errors:
>
> ar: `x' cannot be used on thin archives.
>
> Handle thin archives when invoking pmdinfogen by directly using the
> files referenced in the archive, when they already exist, and extracting
> them if not.
>
> Bugzilla ID: 836
> Fixes: e6e9730c7066 ("buildtools: support object file extraction for Windows")
> Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
>
> Reported-by: Michal Berger <michallinuxst...@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozl...@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com>
LGTM.
Note: meson 0.60 can't build DPDK on Windows due to a meson bug,
but *.pmd.c generation stage passes OK.
