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

[Eric Engestrom]

On Wednesday, 2017-11-15 13:17:25 +0000, Rogovin, Kevin wrote:
> Thanks, I missed that; sorry for the mailing list chatter caused by
> missing the original e-mail on the material.

No worries, there's a lot of traffic, I'm pretty sure nobody read every
single emails of these lists :P

>  -Kevin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Engestrom [mailto:eric.engestrom at imgtec.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 1:39 PM
> To: Rogovin, Kevin <kevin.rogovin at intel.com>
> Cc: mesa-dev at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [Mesa-dev] Difference between Meson and autotools release builds
> 
> 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