From a5449d78d1413e7bd1d66f6e70884e46cfb5e673 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Richardson Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 13:31:04 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) 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 `_ on the + website or the `Getting Started Guide + `_ 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 -- 2.20.1