From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 12:31:04 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: doc: announce removal of make build system
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doc: announce removal of make build system

Add in an official notice that the make build system is being removed in
20.11 and provide a link to instructions on how to build using meson and
ninja instead.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
---

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index ea4cfa7a48..1f1dafd9dc 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -11,6 +11,13 @@ here.
 Deprecation Notices
 -------------------
 
+* make: Support for building DPDK with "make" has been deprecated and
+  support will be removed in the 20.11 release. From 20.11 onwards, DPDK
+  should be built using meson and ninja. For basic instructions see the
+  `Quick-start Guide <https://core.dpdk.org/doc/quick-start/>`_ on the
+  website or the `Getting Started Guide
+  <https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/linux_gsg/build_dpdk.html>`_ document.
+
 * meson: The minimum supported version of meson for configuring and building
   DPDK will be increased to v0.47.1 (from 0.41) from DPDK 19.05 onwards. For
   those users with a version earlier than 0.47.1, an updated copy of meson