[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 19/20] doc: add to release notes to reflect removal of make

Ciara Power ciara.power at intel.com
Mon Sep 21 15:59:30 CEST 2020


Added an entry to decribe the removal of the Make build system to the
release notes for 20.11.

Signed-off-by: Ciara Power <ciara.power at intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst
index b729bdf200..6f35831790 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst
@@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ Removed Items
    Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
    =======================================================
 
+* build: Support for the Make build system was removed for compiling DPDK, Meson
+  is now the primary build system. Sample applications can still be built with
+  Make standalone, using pkg-config.
 
 API Changes
 -----------
-- 
2.17.1



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