[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] docs: add documentation for building with meson

[Dylan Baker]

Quoting Nicholas Miell (2017-10-18 11:45:19)
> On 10/17/2017 12:21 PM, Dylan Baker wrote:
> > +<p>
> > +To see a description of your options you can run "meson configure". This will
> > +show your meson project configuration options as well as your local
> > +configuration options. One meson option to be aware of is that meson's default
> > +build type is "debug" (-O0 -g on gcc/clang).
> > +</p>
> > +
> > +<pre>
> > +    meson configure build
> > +</pre>
> > +
> 
> There should probably be a warning here about how there's no way to 
> export a build configuration and how every minor or point update of 
> meson requires you to delete your build directories and reconfigure 
> everything from scratch.
> 
> Also how user-supplied C/C++ flags get merged in with Meson's idea of 
> what the flags should be with the debug/debugoptimized/release 
> configurations and if you want complete control of the build flags you 
> should use the "plain" build type.

I can add something about setting -Ox and -g options should be used with
--buildtype=plain

Dylan
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