Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/4] build: use dependency() instead of find_library()

[Bruce Richardson]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 06:16:23PM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-01-11 at 17:21 +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 04:26:06PM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > > Whenever possible (if the library ships a pkg-config file) use
> > > meson's
> > > dependency() function to look for it, as it will automatically add
> > > it
> > > to the Requires.private list if needed, to allow for static builds
> > > to
> > > succeed for reverse dependencies of DPDK. Otherwise the recursive
> > > dependencies are not parsed, and users doing static builds have to
> > > resolve them manually by themselves.
> > > When using this API avoid additional checks that are superfluos and
> > 
> > Spelling: superfluous
> 
> I _always_ get that one wrong :-)
> 
I often spell it as "unnecessary" to make life easier :-)