[Mesa-dev] [RFC 4/4] meson: build "radv" vulkan driver for radeon hardware

[Nicolai Hähnle]

On 20.09.2017 23:08, Dylan Baker wrote:
> Matt and I discussed this a bit before he left for XDC, and I have some ideas on
> how to share sources file lists (meson upstream wasn't particularly thrilled
> with the idea of of adding makefile parsing support, even in as limited a form
> as we have with our Makefile.sources). My initial though is to add support to
> meson for reading JSON or some other standard file format (ini, xml, whatever),
> and writing a tool that autotools could call during it's pre-process stage to
> convert these into Makefile.sources files. But I'm not an autotools expert by
> any stretch and I have no idea if that's even possible.

That seems like a reasonable idea. configure contains code to iterate 
over and generate Makefiles, it should be possible to do the same for 
those sources lists.

Making sure they're re-generated automatically may be a bit tricky though.

Cheers,
Nicolai

> 
> I'll also add that android is migrating away from Make compatible android.mk
> files to a new soong build system that does not (AFAICT) read Make files, so if
> the android build system is going to live in tree in the future, we're going to
> end up duplicating all of this for android eventually.
> 
> Dylan
> 
> Quoting Nicolai Hähnle (2017-09-20 13:57:17)
>> On 20.09.2017 22:27, Dylan Baker wrote:
>>> +amd_common_files = files(
>>> +  'ac_binary.c',
>>> +  'ac_binary.h',
>>> +  'ac_exp_param.h',
>>> +  'ac_llvm_build.c',
>>> +  'ac_llvm_build.h',
>>> +  'ac_llvm_helper.cpp',
>>> +  'ac_llvm_util.c',
>>> +  'ac_llvm_util.h',
>>> +  'ac_shader_abi.h',
>>> +  'ac_shader_info.c',
>>> +  'ac_shader_info.h',
>>> +  'ac_nir_to_llvm.c',
>>> +  'ac_nir_to_llvm.h',
>>> +  'ac_gpu_info.c',
>>> +  'ac_gpu_info.h',
>>> +  'ac_surface.c',
>>> +  'ac_surface.h',
>>> +  'ac_debug.c',
>>> +  'ac_debug.h',
>>> +)
>>
>> So... I think this came up in the previous Meson thread. Duplicating
>> these source file lists is pretty painful, because it invariably leads
>> to people (including myself) forgetting to update them, which leads to
>> follow-up "fix $foo build system" commits.
>>
>> I have nothing against Meson in particular, but can we please not go there?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nicolai
>> -- 
>> Lerne, wie die Welt wirklich ist,
>> Aber vergiss niemals, wie sie sein sollte.


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