Meson can generate the list of private dependencies of libraries
automatically for the pkgconfig file only since version 0.45.0.
Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org>
---
doc/build-sdk-meson.txt | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/build-sdk-meson.txt b/doc/build-sdk-meson.txt
index 508e2cb64..229398bb0 100644
--- a/doc/build-sdk-meson.txt
+++ b/doc/build-sdk-meson.txt
@@ -203,3 +203,9 @@ From examples/helloworld/Makefile::
build:
@mkdir -p $@
+
+NOTE: for --static builds, DPDK needs to be built with Meson >= 0.45 in order
to
+fully generate the list of private dependencies. If DPDK is built with an older
+version of Meson, it might be necessary to manually specify dependencies of
DPDK
+PMDs/libraries, for example -lmlx5 -lmnl for librte-pmd-mlx5, or the static
link
+step might fail.
--
2.19.1
