[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] autotools: Deprecate the use of autotools

[Jason Ekstrand]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 4:03 AM Jose Fonseca <jfonseca at vmware.com> wrote:

> On 11/01/2019 22:38, Matt Turner wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 2:28 PM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 5:12 PM Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> From: Gert Wollny <gw.fossdev at gmail.com>
> >>>
> >>> Since Meson will eventually be the only build system deprecate
> autotools
> >>> now. It can still be used by invoking configure with the flag
> >>>    --enable-autotools
> >>>
> >>> NAKed-by: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu>
> >>
> >> [nouveau]
> >>
> >>> Acked-by: Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom at intel.com>
> >>> Acked-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org>
> >>> Acked-by: Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwerlin at intel.com>
> >>> Acked-by: Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net>
> >>> Reviewed-by: Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> [intel]
> >>
> >>> Acked-by: Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> [freedreno]
> >>
> >>> Acked-by: Marek Olšák <marek.olsak at amd.com>
> >>
> >> [radeon]
> >>
> >>> Reviewed-by: Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> [etnaviv]
> >>
> >>> Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
> >>
> >> [vc4]
> >>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Gert Wollny <gw.fossdev at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> [sorry Gert, not sure how to classify you]
> >>
> >> I think the vmware team (which largely maintains llvmpipe and svga) is
> >> probably worth hearing from -- I believe they've largely stayed out of
> >> it. But an ack/nack would be good. Also virgl isn't represented, I
> >> believe. Probably not *required* to hear from these, but perhaps worth
> >> a poke?
> >
> > Sure. I've Cc'd Dave, Brian, José, and Roland on this reply.
>
> Thanks for letting us know.  No concerns for my part FWIW, though my
> involvement on Mesa has been minimal lately.  I think for some of my
> colleagues might be different, but I've been using SCons almost
> exclusively for a very long time, so autotools removal doesn't affect me.
>
> autotools could never become "the build the system to rule them all", in
> Mesa-land, due to the lack of Windows, but there's at least hope Meson
> might one day become it.
>
> For the time where SCons is still around, I wonder if there's value in
> keeping Makefile.sources, or we should just fold them into SConscripts?
> Because they add complexity to SCons which now makes little point,
> unless there's some way to share source file lists between SCons and Meson?
>

As long as we're carrying both Android and SCons, having Makefile.sources
remains useful.
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