[dpdk-stable] patch 'app/testpmd: fix name of bitrate library in meson build' has been queued to LTS release 18.11.11

[Kevin Traynor]

On 05/11/2020 13:22, David Marchand wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 1:41 PM Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com> wrote:
>> From 1bde6247b23c54adb47fa48a5373270ca05a32b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
>> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2020 17:24:27 +0100
>> Subject: [PATCH] app/testpmd: fix name of bitrate library in meson build
>>
>> [ upstream commit 54f89e3df4b16e9079c9d343870d16757429b68b ]
>>
>> The bitrate library in DPDK is actually in a "bitratestats" directory,
>> so that is used by meson for the macro and library name.
>> Therefore, we need to update references to RTE_LIBRTE_BITRATE to
>> RTE_LIBRTE_BITRATESTATS in testpmd to have it found. Rather than
>> supporting both defines, since make is being removed, we can just
>> replace all instances of the former define with the latter.
>>
>> To ensure testpmd links ok when this is done, we also need to add
>> bitratestats to the list of library dependencies.
> 
> This backport will fix meson builds, but it will drop bitratestats
> support in testpmd built with make.
> 
> 

Thanks David. That would be a user visible regression, so we can't do
that. I will drop the patch for now and we can discuss after 20.11 when
everyone is less busy.