To comply with the "hier" standard [Ref: man 7 hier], the driver .so files should not be placed in $datadir. Therefore we install them in a sub-directory of $libdir instead.
Fixes: d123bba2dfbe ("build: add initial infrastructure for meson & ninja builds") Reported-by: Timothy M. Redaelli <tredae...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> --- meson.build | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build index 41426a706..6e4752562 100644 --- a/meson.build +++ b/meson.build @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ dpdk_extra_ldflags = [] if get_option('default_library') == 'static' driver_install_path = get_option('libdir') else - driver_install_path = join_paths(get_option('datadir'), 'dpdk/drivers') + driver_install_path = join_paths(get_option('libdir'), 'dpdk/drivers') endif # configure the build, and make sure configs here and in config folder are -- 2.13.5