[Mesa-dev] Lets talk about autotools

[Marek Olšák]

I don't run meson. I have a script that runs meson. I want to just run the
script and I want to it configure or reconfigure.

I don't want to add this failure path into my script: "meson ... || meson
--reconfigure ..."

Marek

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 6:36 PM Dylan Baker <dylan at pnwbakers.com> wrote:

> You mean you want to change the driver list?
>
> meson builddir
> meson configure builddir -Ddri-drivers= -Dvulkan-drivers=
> -Dgallium-drivers=radeonsi
> ninja -C builddir  # which will trigger a reconfigure
>
> Or was there something else you are trying to do?
>
> Dylan
>
> Quoting Marek Olšák (2018-11-26 15:29:40)
> > meson has a design defect that annoys me. I have a configure script. If
> I want
> > to change enabled drivers and run meson, it won't configure because the
> > directory exists, even if the meson parameters are different. I have to
> add
> > --reconfigure manually into the script. If I keep --reconfigure in the
> script
> > and the build directory doesn't exist, it doesn't configure.
> >
> > There has to be a better solution than "meson ... || meson --reconfigure
> ...".
> >
> > Marek
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 12:46 PM Dylan Baker <dylan at pnwbakers.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >     I feel like for !windows meson is in good enough shape at this point
> that
> >     we
> >     can start having the discussion about deleting the autotools build.
> So, is
> >     there
> >     anything left that autotools can do that meson cannot (that we
> actually
> >     want to
> >     implement)? And, what is a reasonable time-table to remove the
> autotools
> >     build?
> >     I think we could reasonably remove it as soon as 18.3 if others felt
> >     confident
> >     that it would work for them.
> >
> >     Dylan
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> >
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