On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 11:42:59PM +0530, Jerin Jacob wrote: > -----Original Message----- > > Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 11:47:43 +0100 > > From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> > > To: dev@dpdk.org > > CC: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> > > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH] build for DPDK with meson and ninja > > X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.9.4 > > > > to use, need to have meson >= 0.4 and ninja-build packages installed. > > > > Then do the following in main DPDK directory: > > > > meson build > > cd build > > ninja > > sudo ninja install > > Tested on Archlinux + ccache + gcc7. > > Impressive. Build is really quick. Especially in empty build case, where > existing build system takes a while to complete. Thanks for the RFC.
Thanks for testing. That's what I saw too, and it's a really nice benefit. > > Faced an issue(The latest gcc 7 specific DPDK flags are not showing > up correctly) with ccache + gcc 7 environment with ninja. > Look like something is missing in configuration side. Highly likely. I didn't explicitly port over all our cflags that are being specified in the makefiles, just enough to get it to compile on my system. I didn't have enough time on this to cover as many things as I would like. /Bruce
