On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 05:36:46PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 08:59:04AM -0400, Lincoln Lavoie wrote: > > Hi All, > > The current version of meson is pinned to 0.49.2, which was released in > > February 2019. At least it's pinned to that version within > > .ci/linux-setup.sh. > > Current version of 0.63.1, and defaults "shipped" with operating > > systems are newer than the 0.49.2 version and do break the DPDK > > compile. > > It's not practical to always support the newest (i.e. removing any > > pinning of the version), but it also shouldn't be something we pin to a > > single version forever. So, opening up a discussion about what > > strategy could be used for maintaining the meson version that is > > "supported" for dpdk. That version would be used for all CI testing. > > Cheers, > > Lincoln > > -- > > To get the discussion started, I think we need to look at what the default > versions shipped with common distributions are. Thankfully, we are not > limited to those defaults, due to the ease of installing updated versions > using pip3, but it helps to serve as a baseline. I see Ubuntu 20.04 lists > 0.53.2 as the baseline version there [1], for example. That may be a good > minimum to look at, though we perhaps want to update beyond that. > > /Bruce > > [1] https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/devel/meson
In the absense of any objections or further discussion here, I've posted a patch to bump meson minimum version to 0.53. Ref: http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220912170747.3128065-2-bruce.richard...@intel.com/
