[PATCH] doc: prefer installing using meson rather than ninja

David Marchand david.marchand at redhat.com
Fri Jun 9 13:13:15 CEST 2023


On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 12:52 PM Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
>
> After doing a build, to install DPDK system-wide our documentation
> recommended using the "ninja install" command. However, for anyone
> building as a non-root user and only installing as root, the "meson
> install" command is a better alternative, as it provides for
> automatically dropping or elevating privileges as necessary in more
> recent meson releases [1].
>
> [1] https://mesonbuild.com/Installing.html#installing-as-the-superuser
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>

Should we align the CI scripts?


-- 
David Marchand



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