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

[Dylan Baker]

Quoting Emil Velikov (2017-10-19 09:44:37)
> On 18 October 2017 at 18:27, Dylan Baker <dylan at pnwbakers.com> wrote:
> 
> >> > +<p>Note that in meson this defaults to "debug", and  not setting it to
> >> > +"release" will yield non-optimal performance and binary size</p>
> >> Ouch, can we change that?
> >
> > When I did an informal poll in the Intel cube the universal consensus was that
> > defaulting to debug was a feature. If the wider community disagrees, yes, it can be
> > changed.
> >
> The intent behind is amazing, but it subtly changes behaviour over any
> of the existing build systems.
> 
> Past experience suggests that listing such changes in release
> notes/elsewhere people do miss it.
> Thus as users get annoyed with the optimised build there'll be some
> bad noise/publicity.
> 
> Just something to keep in mind.

That is good to keep in mind.

> 
> > I'll fix up the other stuff too.
> >
> Great thanks.
> 
> -Emil
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