On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 5:53 PM Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 12:46:40PM +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > > 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. > > > > To work reliable in all environments this needs pkg-config 0.29.1. > > We want to be able to use PKG_CHECK_MODULES_STATIC which > > is not yet available in 0.24. Therefore update pkg.m4 > > to pkg-config 0.29.1. > > > > This should be backport-safe as these macro files are all versioned. > > autoconf is smart enough to check the version if you have it locally, > > and if the system's is higher, it will use that one instead. > > > > Finally make configure.ac use the locally provided pkg.m4 before > > calling the PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG macro. > > > > Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrha...@canonical.com> > > The explicit m4_include([m4/pkg.m4]) should not be necessary. aclocal > should pick it up automatically.
Thanks Ben for the hint. I agree that it might pick it up automatically, but I have learned not rely on too much with autotools :-/ @Luca - to add the explicit include was your suggestion from Friday the 25th, do you see a potential issue if we don't? _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
