On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 01:59:19PM -0500, Patrick Robb wrote: > Thanks David for the CC. We need to rebuild all of our DPDK > container images for the distro build testing etc. which takes some > time. We should be ready early next week. >
Is rebuilding all container images something that needs to be done every time we do a minimum meson version bump? If so, we probably need to look to take steps to make things easier to do. /Bruce > On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 3:32 AM David Marchand > <[1][email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > On Fri, 5 Dec 2025 at 13:28, Bruce Richardson > <[2][email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 05, 2025 at 12:13:01PM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote: > > > The build of DPDK now uses features from version 0.6 of meson, > which is > > > greater than the current minimum of 0.57.2. Although these > features are > > > non-critical, they do cause warnings to be emitted on build. > Increase > > > minimum meson version to 0.61 (== version in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS) > to remove > > > these warnings. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <[3][email protected]> > > > --- > > > meson.build | 2 +- > > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > > With this patch, and the previously submitted patchset for > assigning test > > cases to the various categories/suites, all warnings in the meson > > configuration stage should now be gone. > > > > In terms of the specific version, as noted above I chose the > version of > > meson present in Ubuntu 22.04 as a reasonable baseline. Both > debian stable, > > and debian old-stable have newer versions than that in them. For > the RHEL > > line, I'm not sure what the baseline is, but I believe that RHEL 8 > shipped > > originally with a meson version even older than 0.57, so moving to > a later > > one I hope doesn't matter. [I wasn't easily able to find out from > Google > > what the current meson version in RHEL 8/9/10 is] > Cc: Timothy for .rpm distributions, Luca for .deb. > I prefer we get some acks from distributions people. > Also, this patch requires coordination with the CI guys (as can be > seen in patchwork, many envs are using old versions of meson). > -- > David Marchand > > References > > 1. mailto:[email protected] > 2. mailto:[email protected] > 3. mailto:[email protected]
