"Stokes, Ian" <ian.sto...@intel.com> writes:

>> DPDK 18.11 builds using the more modern meson build system no more provide
>> the -ldpdk linker script. Instead it is expected to use pkgconfig for
>> linker options as well.
>> 
>> This change will set DPDK_LIB from pkg-config (if pkg-config was
>> available) and since that already carries the whole-archive flags around
>> the PMDs skips the further wrapping in more whole-archive if that is
>> already part of DPDK_LIB.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrha...@canonical.com>
>> ---
>
> Hi Christian,
>
> Thanks for this, this patch will cause the travis build to fail, I'd
> suggest it be rolled into patch 2 of the series as its expected for
> all patches to pass the build individually rather than being corrected
> by a later patch in the series.
>
> https://travis-ci.org/istokes/ovs/builds/488462598
>
> Just a query for the RHEL folks, I remember there being some concern
> as the DPDK userspace conference with regards to dependencies required
> for the meson build of DPDK not being supported in RHEL distros, is
> this still the case?

I think this change is independent of the meson build.  It merely takes
the meson build into account, from what I can tell.

> Ian
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