[Mesa-dev] Lets talk about autotools

[Timo Aaltonen]

On 27.11.2018 12.20, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-11-27 at 11:13 +0200, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
>> 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..
>>
> 
> I don't know if this is acceptable or not for packaging, but one could
> always install meson from pip, I would assume...

Nope, network resources aren't available (nor allowed) when building for
the distro.


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