> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2019 7:50 PM
> To: Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jer...@marvell.com>
> Cc: Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org>; dev <dev@dpdk.org>;
> tho...@monjalon.net
> Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: meson build issue
>
> On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 02:18:28PM +0000, Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org>
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2019 7:45 PM
> > > To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com>; Jerin Jacob
> > > Kollanukkaran <jer...@marvell.com>
> > > Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>; tho...@monjalon.net
> > > Subject: [EXT] Re: meson build issue
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 15:01 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 01:57:14PM +0000, Jerin Jacob
> > > > Kollanukkaran
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > > From: Bruce Richardson <
> > > > > > bruce.richard...@intel.com
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2019 7:21 PM
> > > > > > To: Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran < jer...@marvell.com
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > Cc: dev <
> > > > > > dev@dpdk.org
> > > > > > >; Luca Boccassi <
> > > > > > bl...@debian.org
> > > > > > >;
> > > > > > tho...@monjalon.net
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Subject: [EXT] Re: meson build issue
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 01:38:01PM +0000, Jerin Jacob
> > > > > > Kollanukkaran wrote:
> > > > > > > Anyone else facing this meson build issue in master?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Installing
> > > > > > > /home/jerin/dpdk-next-eventdev/build-x86-default/meson-
> > > > > >
> > > > > > private/libdpdk
> > > > > > > .pc to
> > > > > > > /home/jerin/dpdk-next-eventdev/build-x86-default/install-
> > > > > > > root/usr/loca
> > > > > > > l/lib/pkgconfig Running custom install script '/bin/sh
> > > > > > > /home/jerin/dpdk-next-eventdev/config/../buildtools/symlink-
> > > > > > > drivers-
> > > > > >
> > > > > > solibs.sh lib dpdk/pmds-19.08'
> > > > > > > Running custom install script '/usr/bin/sh -c rm -f
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > $MESON_INSTALL_DESTDIR_PREFIX/share/doc/dpdk/guides/.buildinfo'
> > > > > > > Running custom install script '/usr/bin/sh -c install -D
> > > > > > > -m0644
> > > > > >
> > > > > > $MESON_SOURCE_ROOT/doc/guides/custom.css
> > > > > >
> > >
> $MESON_INSTALL_DESTDIR_PREFIX/share/doc/dpdk/guides/_static/css/c
> > > > > > us
> > > > > > tom.css'
> > > > > > > ## Building cmdline
> > > > > > > make: Entering directory
> > > > > > > '/home/jerin/dpdk-next-eventdev/build-
> > > > > > > x86-
> > > > > >
> > > > > > default/install-root/usr/local/share/dpdk/examples/cmdline'
> > > > > > > pkgconf: unknown option -- define-prefix
> > > > > >
> > > > > > What distro are you on? You probably need an updated copy of
> > > > > > pkg- config or pkgconf.
> > > > >
> > > > > It is arch linux(rolling distro)
> > > > >
> > > > > $ pkg-config --version
> > > > > 0.28
> > > > >
> > > > > $ pkgconf --version
> > > > > 0.28
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Maybe pkgconf doesn't support that flag yet. If you install pkg-
> > > > config rather than pkgconf does it make the problem go away? (at
> > > > least on ubuntu when I tried it the two were mutually exclusive)
> > > >
> > > > /Bruce
> > >
> > > Support for that flag was added in pkgconf 1.2.0 in January 2017 and
> > > pkg- config 0.29 in August 2015 - the problem is that version of
> > > pkg- config is even older, 0.28 from 2013 - strange that Arch doesn't have
> anything newer?
> >
> > After inspecting the PATH. Its found that archlinux has very latest
> pkgconf(1.6.1).
> > Pkgconf was overridden by a armv7 cross compile toolchain from linaro.
> >
> > >
> Ok, thanks for the explanation. All working ok once that is fixed, I assume?
Yes. Works with archlinux.
>
> /Bruce
