[Mesa-dev] [PATCH mesa] drop autotools

[Dylan Baker]

Quoting Gert Wollny (2018-12-04 15:42:58)
> Am Dienstag, den 04.12.2018, 14:01 -0800 schrieb Matt Turner:
> > On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 12:48 PM Gert Wollny <gw.fossdev at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > FWIW, I also don't understand the urge to remove the automake build
> > > system files, they account for less then 1% of line count in the
> > > source
> > > tree, Emil offered to maintain the build system in a way that
> > > nobody
> > > who doesn't want to deal with has to touch it
> > 
> > Do you see any value in removing the autotools build system at all?
> 
> If there was nobody willing to maintain it and nobody who wants to use
> it then I would say it makes sense to remove it, because it doesn't
> make sense to keep something that is unused and will bitrot, but right
> now this is not the case. In light of what Emil wrote I could also ask:
> what's the harm in keeping it?
> 
> Personally, I use both, meson/ninja is great when you want to build 
> the whole project, but being able to go to a subdirectory and just run
> "make something" there has its virtues too.
> 
> Best, 
> Gert
> 

Is that really any different than doing a `ninja -C builddir/
src/mesa/libmesa_gallium.a` (or whatever target you want)? Especially since you
can tab complete ninja targets.

Dylan
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