[Mesa-dev] [PATCH mesa] drop autotools

[Jan Vesely]

On Mon, 2018-12-03 at 16:17 -0800, Dylan Baker wrote:
> Quoting Bas Nieuwenhuizen (2018-12-03 14:14:19)
> > On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 7:30 PM Jan Vesely <jan.vesely at rutgers.edu> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2018-12-03 at 10:21 +0000, Eric Engestrom wrote:
> > > > Cc: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com>
> > > > Cc: Andres Gomez <agomez at igalia.com>
> > > > Cc: Juan A. Suarez Romero <jasuarez at igalia.com>
> > > > Cc: Dylan Baker <dylan at pnwbakers.com>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom at intel.com>
> > > > ---
> > > > This patch depends on the releasing procedure in docs/releasing.html to
> > > > be updated to not rely on autotools anymore.
> > > > 
> > > > I think our release managers (cc'ed) should work together and figure out
> > > > the procedure they want to go by; only once that's done can we delete
> > > > these 200+ files and 14k+ lines :)
> > > 
> > > once again, I'm going to request that this patch is delayed until meson
> > > 0.49 is more widely available (it has not been released yet!).
> > > afaik, there is currently no way to build against non-default llvm
> > > outside autotools.
> > 
> > Can't you just add the llvm-config of the non-default to the PATH (and
> > if you have a setup which instead of putting it in a different path
> > suffixes it, make a new directory, add a llvm-config symlink in there
> > and add that to the PATH)? I've been building with non-default llvm
> > for ages with meson.

It works as a backstop for scripted updates. The problem is that the
next rebuild will silently switch to system default llvm, so I'd need
to set the PATH before every ninja call.

> You can, that's what I've done as well. 0.49 just has a much nicer mechanism
> (and one that presumably distro packagers can use more easily).

I don't understand why distros are such a big focus. Don't they all
have scripts to build packages? Why would volatility of configuration
options be a problem for them?
Then again I'm not a distro maintainer ...

Jan

> 
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