[Mesa-dev] initial meson port

[Nirbheek Chauhan]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 5:36 PM, Jakob Bornecrantz <wallbraker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wasn't lacking distcheck support one of the arguments against moving
> to only a scons build when this was brought up all those years ago?
> Does Meson provide something similar, or do people just now get all
> of the source from git nowadays?
>

Meson supports a `dist` feature which is the same as `distcheck`.
However, it is less error-prone compared to Autotools distcheck
because it will tarball everything that has been checked into git
(once tests pass), so you don't have to maintain a whitelist of files.

This also means that you can be sure that your release contains the
same code that your git repository contains, and hence that your
release is buildable from both git and the tarball.

Cheers,
Nirbheek