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authorLuca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>2018-11-19 12:59:01 +0000
committerLuca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>2018-11-19 12:59:24 +0000
commit29058550643267a554e0368806dece63b047c5cb (patch)
treea6f573fe3fbc14585529b83cfcc65da2dceefbf5 /doc/build-sdk-meson.txt
parent8a853e3f0275efc8b05cb195085d45946942744a (diff)
New upstream version 18.11-rc4upstream/18.11-rc4
Change-Id: I861e1a2f7df210f57f44f1ad56b9ef789a4675e3 Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/doc/build-sdk-meson.txt b/doc/build-sdk-meson.txt
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@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ Installing the Compiled Files
Use ``ninja install`` to install the required DPDK files onto the system.
The install prefix defaults to ``/usr/local`` but can be used as with other
-options above. The environment variable ``DEST_DIR`` can be used to adjust
+options above. The environment variable ``DESTDIR`` can be used to adjust
the root directory for the install, for example when packaging.
With the base install directory, the individual directories for libraries
@@ -203,3 +203,9 @@ From examples/helloworld/Makefile::
build:
@mkdir -p $@
+
+NOTE: for --static builds, DPDK needs to be built with Meson >= 0.46 in order to
+fully generate the list of private dependencies. If DPDK is built with an older
+version of Meson, it might be necessary to manually specify dependencies of DPDK
+PMDs/libraries, for example -lmlx5 -lmnl for librte-pmd-mlx5, or the static link
+step might fail.