[PATCH v5 1/1] build: add libarchive to external deps

[Bruce Richardson]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2023 at 08:12:43PM -0800, Srikanth Yalavarthi wrote:
> In order to avoid linking with Libs.private, libarchive
> is not added to ext_deps during the meson setup stage.
> 
> Since libarchive is not added to ext_deps, cross-compilation
> or native compilation with libarchive installed in non-standard
> location fails with errors related to "cannot find -larchive"
> or "archive.h: No such file or directory". In order to fix the
> build failures, user is required to define the 'c_args' and
> 'c_link_args' with '-I<includedir>' and '-L<libdir>'.
> 
> This patch adds libarchive to ext_deps and further would not
> require setting c_args and c_link_args externally.
> 
> Fixes: 40edb9c0d36b ("eal: handle compressed firmware")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Srikanth Yalavarthi <syalavarthi at marvell.com>

Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>