[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 11/11/2020 10:44, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> 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.
> 

+Luca, fyi, this patch is in 19.11 tree.