[Mesa-dev] Difference between Meson and autotools release builds

[Rogovin, Kevin]

Thanks, I missed that; sorry for the mailing list chatter caused by missing the original e-mail on the material.
 -Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Engestrom [mailto:eric.engestrom at imgtec.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 1:39 PM
To: Rogovin, Kevin <kevin.rogovin at intel.com>
Cc: mesa-dev at lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [Mesa-dev] Difference between Meson and autotools release builds

On Wednesday, 2017-11-15 09:43:59 +0000, Rogovin, Kevin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I do not know if anyone has noticed or if it is deliberate, but the meson builds have that assert()'s are active but the autotools release builds have that assert() is inactive.

Hi,

Yep, this is by design, meson decouples the build type (eg. "release") from whether asserts are enabled; you can read more about it in this
thread:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2017-November/175739.html

You can already read the not-yet-landed documentation in this patch:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2017-November/175854.html

(or if it lands before you read this, the up-to-date meson-for-mesa documentation will live at: https://mesa3d.org/meson.html)

Cheers,
  Eric