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

[David Marchand]

On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 5:12 AM Srikanth Yalavarthi
<syalavarthi at marvell.com> 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>

This breaks static compilation of applications.
This can be reproduced with test-meson-builds.sh and in GHA (which was
not linking examples statically, I added a patch in my github repo):
https://github.com/david-marchand/dpdk/actions/runs/6772879600/job/18406442129#step:19:19572


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David Marchand