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[v2,2/3] doc: add pkg-config-aarch64-linux-gnu as a prerequisite

Message ID 20191128072335.5818-2-alialnu@mellanox.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
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Series [v2,1/3] config: set the pkgconfig executable |

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Commit Message

Ali Alnubani Nov. 28, 2019, 7:24 a.m. UTC 
  The package pkg-config-aarch64-linux-gnu is required with meson for
detecting dependencies installed in nonstandard paths.

Signed-off-by: Ali Alnubani <alialnu@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
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v2: added an additional patch to the series.

 doc/guides/linux_gsg/cross_build_dpdk_for_arm64.rst | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/cross_build_dpdk_for_arm64.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/cross_build_dpdk_for_arm64.rst
index e799b0ba4..f00f9b130 100644
--- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/cross_build_dpdk_for_arm64.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/cross_build_dpdk_for_arm64.rst
@@ -122,6 +122,14 @@  To compile for non-NUMA targets, without compiling the kernel modules, use the f
 Meson Cross Compiling DPDK
 --------------------------
 
+Meson depends on pkgconfig to find the dependencies that are installed in
+nonstandard paths. The package `pkg-config-aarch64-linux-gnu` is required in
+this case. To install it in Ubuntu:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+   sudo apt-get install pkg-config-aarch64-linux-gnu
+
 To cross-compile DPDK on a desired target machine we can use the following
 command::