On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 12:46:40PM +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> DPDK 18.11 builds using the more modern meson build system no more
> provide the -ldpdk linker script. Instead it is expected to use
> pkgconfig for linker options as well.
> 
> This change will set DPDK_LIB from pkg-config (if pkg-config was
> available) and since that already carries the whole-archive flags
> around the PMDs skips the further wrapping in more whole-archive
> if that is already part of DPDK_LIB.
> 
> To work reliable in all environments this needs pkg-config 0.29.1.
> We want to be able to use PKG_CHECK_MODULES_STATIC which
> is not yet available in 0.24. Therefore update pkg.m4
> to pkg-config 0.29.1.
> 
> This should be backport-safe as these macro files are all versioned.
> autoconf is smart enough to check the version if you have it locally,
> and if the system's is higher, it will use that one instead.
> 
> Finally make configure.ac use the locally provided pkg.m4 before
> calling the PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG macro.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <[email protected]>

The explicit m4_include([m4/pkg.m4]) should not be necessary.  aclocal
should pick it up automatically.
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