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

[Eric Anholt]

Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Dylan Baker <dylan at pnwbakers.com> wrote:
>> Here's a not so complete list: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/wiki/Users
>>
>> Notably gnome is moving to meson (and some parts already use it), weston and
>> libinput have ports, libepoxy uses meson, and gstreamer is using meson. I
>> can't say for sure it's going to be around forever, but its been in development
>> since late 2012 and still lands several patches a day, they were responsive to
>> me when I sent a patch (that I still need to respin), and they seem to be
>> picking up momentum from downstreams.
>
>
> btw, possibly newbie question, but from what I can tell so far in
> meson docs, there are separate 'meson build && cd build && ninja'
> steps.. one nice thing about autotools is 'git pull && make' (and it
> somehow magically figures out whether to re-automake/autoconf).  Not
> sure if there is a way to do something like that in meson.

Consider meson build to be ./autogen.sh.  After that point you can git
pull && make.
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