[Mesa-dev] Lets talk about autotools

[Timo Aaltonen]

On 17.11.2018 6.04, Dylan Baker wrote:
> Quoting Dylan Baker (2018-09-17 09:44:07)
>> 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
> 
> Okay, time for an update on things and a chance to talk about what else we need.
> 
> Support for llvm-config (and any binary, actually) overriding has landed in
> meson, and will be present in the 0.49.0 release, which is due out December 9th.

Hi, just a note that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ships with meson 0.45.1 and will
get Mesa backports up until and including 20.0.x, so I wonder how
complex these required new features in meson are to be backported, or
perhaps easily worked around? Backporting a whole new version of meson
might not happen..



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