build: mention -march in pkg-config description

[dpdk.git] / meson.build

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index fcc30aba780cd48185f93e90f9ff27ca38382209..68429f850107ebf3b0f3fe5dbc461cd45ec35623 100644 (file)
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -83,7 +83,9 @@ pkg.generate(name: meson.project_name(),
        libraries: dpdk_libraries,
        libraries_private: dpdk_drivers + dpdk_static_libraries +
                        ['-Wl,-Bdynamic'] + dpdk_extra_ldflags,
-       description: 'The Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)',
+       description: '''The Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK).
+Note that CFLAGS might contain an -march flag higher than typical baseline.
+This is required for a number of static inline functions in the public headers.''',
        subdirs: [get_option('include_subdir_arch'), '.'],
        extra_cflags: ['-include', 'rte_config.h'] + machine_args
 )