On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 11:14:43AM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote: > Since meson 0.44, changing any file inside a PMD directory (quite > correctly) triggers a full re-run of meson on build, rather than an > incremental build as with earlier versions. This rerun is needed because > we use "grep" in meson to search for files on which to run pmdinfogen, and > changing any of those files means that grep and, therefore meson, needs to > be rerun. [Previous versions of meson did not track this dependency on the > grep command, and so did incremental builds only.] > > If, however, we take advantage of pmdinfogen's ability to use stdin and > stdout instead of files, we can instead use a shell script to process an > entire static archive and generate a single .c file from it. This > eliminates the need for grep, and means that changes to a PMD file only > need an incremental build - a significant time saving. > > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> > --- Applied to dpdk-next-build
/Bruce
