[Mesa-dev] Difference between Meson and autotools release builds

[Eric Engestrom]

On Wednesday, 2017-11-15 09:43:59 +0000, Rogovin, Kevin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I do not know if anyone has noticed or if it is deliberate, but the meson builds have that assert()'s are active but the autotools release builds have that assert() is inactive.

Hi,

Yep, this is by design, meson decouples the build type (eg. "release")
from whether asserts are enabled; you can read more about it in this
thread:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2017-November/175739.html

You can already read the not-yet-landed documentation in this patch:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2017-November/175854.html

(or if it lands before you read this, the up-to-date meson-for-mesa
documentation will live at: https://mesa3d.org/meson.html)

Cheers,
  Eric