On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 1:19 PM Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 01:13:15PM +0200, David Marchand wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 12:52 PM Bruce Richardson > > <bruce.richard...@intel.com> wrote: > > > > > > After doing a build, to install DPDK system-wide our documentation > > > recommended using the "ninja install" command. However, for anyone > > > building as a non-root user and only installing as root, the "meson > > > install" command is a better alternative, as it provides for > > > automatically dropping or elevating privileges as necessary in more > > > recent meson releases [1]. > > > > > > [1] https://mesonbuild.com/Installing.html#installing-as-the-superuser > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> > > > > Should we align the CI scripts? > > > Hadn't considered it. > > For them, it probably doesn't matter. This change is only really for > someone building as one user and then doing a sudo install. The CI scripts > don't install system-wide so don't need any privilege changes. > > However, if you think our CI should just align with the practice in the > docs, I can do a V2 with some CI changes too.
My concern is that we recommend something we are not testing. So I'd prefer we have some minimal testing. -- David Marchand
