06/07/2020 14:22, Bruce Richardson:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 02:32:39PM +0300, Fady Bader wrote:
> > Function versioning implementation is not supported by Windows.
> > Function versioning is disabled on Windows.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Fady Bader <f...@mellanox.com>
> > ---
> > doc/guides/windows_gsg/intro.rst | 4 ++++
> > lib/meson.build | 6 +++++-
> > 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/doc/guides/windows_gsg/intro.rst
> > b/doc/guides/windows_gsg/intro.rst
> > index a0285732df..58c6246404 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/windows_gsg/intro.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/windows_gsg/intro.rst
> > @@ -18,3 +18,7 @@ DPDK for Windows is currently a work in progress. Not all
> > DPDK source files
> > compile. Support is being added in pieces so as to limit the overall scope
> > of any individual patch series. The goal is to be able to run any DPDK
> > application natively on Windows.
> > +
> > +The :doc:`../contributing/abi_policy` cannot be respected for Windows.
> > +Minor ABI versions may be incompatible
> > +because function versioning is not supported on Windows.
> > diff --git a/lib/meson.build b/lib/meson.build
> > index c1b9e1633f..dadf151f78 100644
> > --- a/lib/meson.build
> > +++ b/lib/meson.build
> > @@ -107,6 +107,10 @@ foreach l:libraries
> > shared_dep = declare_dependency(include_directories:
> > includes)
> > static_dep = shared_dep
> > else
> > + if is_windows and use_function_versioning
> > + message('@0@: Function versioning is not
> > supported by Windows.'
> > + .format(name))
> > + endif
> >
>
> This is ok here, but I think it might be better just moved to somewhere
> like config/meson.build, so that it is always just printed once for each
> build. I don't see an issue with having it printed even if there is no
> function versioning in the build itself.
Moving such message in config/meson.build is the same
as moving it to the doc.
I prefer having a message each time a library compatibility
is required but not possible.
> With or without the code move above, which is just a suggestion,
>
> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com>
OK thanks, I'll merge as is.
