build: add option to override drivers install directory

Allow users and packagers to override the default dpdk/drivers
subdirectory where the PMDs get installed under $lib.

Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 356b4977dbdebdb50dca7983d66142efeb4d5202..d64eca545b9a0dd7f4a10dd72c12febc335530b5 100644 (file)
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -22,8 +22,11 @@ dpdk_app_link_libraries = []
 pver = meson.project_version().split('.')
 major_version = '@0@.@1@'.format(pver.get(0), pver.get(1))
 
-driver_install_path = join_paths(get_option('libdir'), 'dpdk',
-       'pmds-' + major_version)
+pmd_subdir_opt = get_option('drivers_install_subdir')
+if pmd_subdir_opt.contains('<VERSION>')
+       pmd_subdir_opt = major_version.join(pmd_subdir_opt.split('<VERSION>'))
+endif
+driver_install_path = join_paths(get_option('libdir'), pmd_subdir_opt)
 eal_pmd_path = join_paths(get_option('prefix'), driver_install_path)
 
 # configure the build, and make sure configs here and in config folder are

diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
index d14bde892d3eab5861c2a493fc5ce8512c964486..10b541615104505cffb478be8eea3086b030e386 100644 (file)
--- a/meson_options.txt
+++ b/meson_options.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 option('allow_invalid_socket_id', type: 'boolean', value: false,
        description: 'allow out-of-range NUMA socket id\'s for platforms that don\'t report the value correctly')
+option('drivers_install_subdir', type: 'string', value: 'dpdk/pmds-<VERSION>',
+       description: 'Subdirectory of libdir where to install PMDs. Defaults to using a versioned subdirectory.')
 option('enable_driver_mlx_glue', type: 'boolean', value: false,
        description: 'Enable glue library for Mellanox PMDs')
 option('enable_kmods', type: 'boolean', value: true,