> From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Richardson > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2018 2:55 PM > To: dev@dpdk.org > Cc: hemant.agra...@nxp.com; shreyansh.j...@nxp.com; Richardson, Bruce > <bruce.richard...@intel.com> > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/6] enable easier app compilation testing with > meson > > Summary: > With this set you can test building all applicable examples by > calling meson with "-Dexamples=all" > > When building DPDK with meson, it's possible to specify a list of sample > apps to have built along with the main code. However, specifying a full > list of all apps can be unwieldy, so this set adds support for passing > "all" as the examples to be built. > > With "all", meson just adds all subdirectories of "examples" to the build, > so the first few patches are ensuring that we don't get an error by > attempting to build an unsupported application. On linux, only 7 apps were > unsupported, in that they had not been given a meson.build file. On > FreeBSD, a few others had to have their meson.build files updated to report > them as unsupported. > > In terms of behaviour, the meson.build file for each app will report if the > app can be built or not. If "all" is requested, then a message is printed > and the meson run can continue. If, however, the app is requested by name, > then an error is reported and the meson run halts. > > The final two patches in the series are more cleanup, the former improves > error reporting, while the last patch is a performance improvement. Meson > runs quickly enough in the normal case, but with a full set of examples, > the dependency chain resolution can slow things down. Reducing the lists of > dependencies makes a noticable difference in this case. [NOTE: this > slowness and speedup only applies to the meson run; the actual build using > ninja is as fast as ever!] > > Bruce Richardson (6): > examples: add empty meson files for unsupported examples > examples/l2fwd-cat: make build dependent on pqos library > examples: disable unsupported examples on BSD > examples: allow building all examples as part of meson build > examples: improve error report for missing meson deps > drivers/dpaa*: reduce meson dependency lists
Working fine for me here! Series-Tested-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haa...@intel.com>
