On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 11:06 AM Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 2019-02-11 at 07:59 +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 5:53 PM Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote: > > > > > > 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 <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.c > > > > om> > > > > > > The explicit m4_include([m4/pkg.m4]) should not be > > > necessary. aclocal > > > should pick it up automatically. > > > > Thanks Ben for the hint. > > I agree that it might pick it up automatically, but I have learned > > not > > rely on too much with autotools :-/ > > @Luca - to add the explicit include was your suggestion from Friday > > the 25th, do you see a potential issue if we don't? > > Yes it should work without - but only one way to be sure :-)
yeah - "should (tm)" :-) @Ben Pfaff - it surely works with the include and I see now drawback :-) If you want me I can send a V5 which drops the explicit include, but without being called to do so I'd lean towards keeping it explicit to be sure. Let me know what you prefer. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
