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doc: discourage using meson 0.58 on Windows

Message ID 20211112221708.336712-1-dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
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Series doc: discourage using meson 0.58 on Windows |

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Dmitry Kozlyuk Nov. 12, 2021, 10:17 p.m. UTC 
  Meson 0.58 and above cannot build DPDK on Windows with clang.
Recommend the latest known working version
and warn about the issue and the affected versions.

Suggested-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
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 doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Thomas Monjalon Nov. 17, 2021, 8:54 a.m. UTC | #1 
12/11/2021 23:17, Dmitry Kozlyuk:
> Meson 0.58 and above cannot build DPDK on Windows with clang.
> Recommend the latest known working version
> and warn about the issue and the affected versions.
> 
> Suggested-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>

Applied, thanks.
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diff --git a/doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst b/doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst
index 8083227ea4..38b3068d7b 100644
--- a/doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst
@@ -64,7 +64,11 @@  A good option to choose is the MSI installer for both meson and ninja together::
 
 	http://mesonbuild.com/Getting-meson.html#installing-meson-and-ninja-with-the-msi-installer%22
 
-Recommended version is either Meson 0.57.0 (baseline) or the latest release.
+Recommended version is Meson 0.57.
+
+Versions starting from 0.58 are unusable with LLVM toolchain
+because of a `Meson issue <https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/8981>`_.
+
 
 Install the Backend
 -------------------