[Mesa-dev] [RFC libdrm 0/2] Replace the build system with meson

Dylan Baker dylan at pnwbakers.com
Thu Mar 16 21:25:35 UTC 2017


Why bother, and why would we want this?                                                              │~

First it's written in python, which means the potential developer base
is massive. And it provides a recursive view for humans, but a
non-recursive view for the system. This is the best of both worlds,
humans can organize the build system in a way that makes sense, and the
machine gets a non-recursive build system. It also uses ninja rather
than make, and ninja is faster than make inherently. Meson is also a
simpler syntax than autotools or cmake it's not Turing Complete by
design nor does it expose python, again, by design. This allows meson
itself to be reimplemented in a another language if python becomes a
dead-end or a bottle-neck. It also makes it much easier to understand
what the build system is doing.

What's different about using meson?

Well, apart from a faster builds and less magic in the build system? The
configure flags are different, it uses -D<opt>=<value> more like cmake
than the --enable or --with flags of autotools, although oddly it uses
--prefix and friends when calling meson, but not with mesonconf, there's
a bug opened on this. Meson also doesn't support in-tree builds at all;
all builds are done out of tree. It also doesn't provide a "make dist"
target, fortunately there's this awesome tool called git, and it
provides a "git archive" command that does much the same thing. Did I
mention it's fast?

Here are the performance numbers I see on a 2 core 4 thread SKL, without
initial configuration, and building out of tree (using zsh):

For meson the command line is:
time (meson build -Dmanpages=true && ninja -C build)

For autotools the command line is:
time (mdkir build && cd build && ../autotools && make -j5 -l4)<Paste>

meson (cold ccache):     13.37s user 1.74s system 255% cpu  5.907 total
autotools (cold ccache): 26.50s user 1.71s system 129% cpu 21.835 total
meson (hot ccache):       2.13s user 0.39s system 154% cpu  1.633 total
autotools (hot ccache):  13.93s user 0.73s system 102% cpu 14.259 total

That's ~4x faster for a cold build and ~10x faster for a hot build.

For a make clean && make style build with a hot cache:
meson:     4.64s user 0.33s system 334% cpu 1.486 total
autotools: 7.93s user 0.32s system 167% cpu 4.920 total

Why bother with libdrm?

It's a simple build system, that could be completely (or mostly
completely) be ported in a very short time, and could serve as a tech
demo for the advantages of using meson to garner feedback for embarking
on a larger project, like mesa (which is what I'm planning to work on
next).

tl;dr

I wrote this as practice for porting Mesa, and figured I might as well
send it out since I wrote it.

It is very likely that neither of these large patches will show up on the
mailing list, but this is available at my github:
https://github.com/dcbaker/libdrm wip/meson

Dylan Baker (2):
  Port build system to meson
  remove autotools build

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