On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 10:39:27 +0200
Gabriel Ganne <gabriel.ga...@6wind.com> wrote:
> libpcap is already found and registered as a dependency by meson, and
> the dependency is already correctly used in librte_port. This line is
> just unnecessary.
>
> The pcap PMD and the librte_port both declare their dependency to
> libpcap with a line "ext_deps += pcap_dep".
> "pcap_dep" is declared using the dependency() directive in
> config/meson.build meson automatically adds this dependency to the
> pkg-config file in the private section for static builds.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Ganne <gabriel.ga...@6wind.com>
> ---
> config/meson.build | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/config/meson.build b/config/meson.build
> index 66a2edcc47f5..95777cf33169 100644
> --- a/config/meson.build
> +++ b/config/meson.build
> @@ -183,7 +183,6 @@ if not pcap_dep.found()
> endif
> if pcap_dep.found() and cc.has_header('pcap.h', dependencies: pcap_dep)
> dpdk_conf.set('RTE_PORT_PCAP', 1)
> - dpdk_extra_ldflags += '-lpcap'
> endif
>
Patch needs to be rebased and retested, now that Windows has pcap support.
Need to make sure that Windows is not depending on this.
