[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] RFC: meson: Add a new build-dev-tools option

[Ian Romanick]

On 11/13/2017 10:58 AM, Eric Engestrom wrote:
> On Saturday, 2017-11-11 14:39:20 -0800, Jason Ekstrand wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>> A variety of the different drivers in mesa have some sort of developer
>>>> tools to go along with them.  Normal users don't want these but devs do.
>>>> This commit adds a new build-dev-tools option which causes these tools
>>>> to be built and installed.
>>>
>>> fwiw, nouveau and etnaviv also have standalone compilers
>>>
>>> And I kinda think mesa already has too many build config options
>>> already,
>>
>> Yeah...  that may be. I've stopped noticing as I just have a build script
>> that does it all for me (and, incidentally works with both autotools and
>> meson).
>>
>>> so maybe tying these to debug build would be a reasonable way
>>> to avoid adding another.. I don't insist on it if someone else has a
>>> reason to build their driver's "dev tools" outside of a debug build,
>>> but I really only have use for ir3compiler in the context of a debug
>>> build.
>>
>> Maybe...  However, the aubinator tools that we have are something you may
>> want to at least use with a release build.  Whether or not there's any
>> point in building them in release mode, I don't know.  Sometimes it is
>> useful to use the aubinator out of the same branc as you're hacking on.
> 
> This only affects whether it's built by default, you can always run
> `ninja src/intel/tools/aubinator` manually on your release build :)
> 
> I agree with tying this to whether it's a release build or not, although
> I would also exclude 'plain' used in packages, which really just leaves
> debug builds:
> 
> 	build_dev_tools = get_option('buildtype').startswith('debug')

Ooh... that's good to know.  I like this build system more and more
every day. :)

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