[Intel-gfx] [PATCH i-g-t 02/12] build: Nuke #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H cargo-cult

[Daniel Vetter]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 11:28:09AM +0300, Arkadiusz Hiler wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 02, 2017 at 07:03:56PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > We have it. Daniel Stone said it comes from the X11 transition to the
> > modular build.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> 
> It's also used for Android builds, which lack the generated config.h.
> 
> But is this even used nowadays by anyone?
> 
> How we are going to deal with the Android.mk with the transition to
> meson? Can we just drop them?
> 
> Android, in recent releases, is shifting from Makefiles to Soong.
> anyway. <https://android.googlesource.com/platform/build/soong/>

Looking at recent igt patches, we've stuffed all the fancy stuff (e.g.
chamelium) into Makefile.am, not Makefile.sources. And no one updated the
android build.

Judging from that, I think the android build is already firmly in bitrot
territory :-/

So yeah the plan would be to just leave it there, until someone cares
more. From a few googles it looks like meson might be able to
cross-compile into an android environment, but it won't be able to get
integrated into the android image build.

We could also try to generate the Makefile.sources files from special
meson targets (probably using the configuration generation stuff and a few
templates).
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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