[Mesa-dev] last call for autotools

[Rhys Kidd]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 at 16:46, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 at 19:49, Dylan Baker <dylan at pnwbakers.com> wrote:
> >
> > Quoting Emil Velikov (2018-12-11 10:48:56)
> > > On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 at 18:18, Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> writes:
> > > >
> > > > > On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 at 23:11, Dylan Baker <dylan at pnwbakers.com>
> wrote:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Meson 0.49.0 has been out for a couple of days now, and I'd like
> to make the
> > > > >> final call for autotools. My patch is so massive that it's a huge
> pain to send
> > > > >> to the list, the latest versions is here:
> > > > >>
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbaker/mesa/commits/delete-autotools
> > > > >>
> > > > > Can you split this up a bit? I'm mostly conserved about a couple
> of things:
> > > > > - we're loosing multiple testing permutations with Travis -
> there's no
> > > > > meson equivalent
> > > > > - needed/missing bits are impossible to spot as-is
> > > > >
> > > > > Personally, I'd do something like:
> > > > >  - move .travis autotools permutations to meson
> > > > >  - docs changes
> > > > >  - rm Makefile{.*,}.am autogen.sh and configure.ac
> > > > >  - rm Makefile.sources
> > > > >  - .gitignore
> > > >
> > > > I don't think we should block on anything related to travis at this
> > > > point.  I wrote it initially hoping it would let us prevent build
> > > > breakages.  Instead, whenever I try to use travis to prevent build
> > > > breakage, I find that travis has already been broken for a while.
> > > >
> > > You must be really unlucky.
> > >
> > > > The CI needs to be integrated with our actual repository host, or it
> > > > doesn't work.  We should just delete .travis.yml and push the gitlab
> > > > stuff forward instead.
> > >
> > > If we have anything better in place (say gitlab CI/other) - sure.
> > > Removing something without a replacement in place is quite meh.
> > > That said, I think we agree that this is a topic for another day.
> > >
> > > HTH
> > > -Emil
> >
> > I'm actually finding myself agreeing that travis is just a pain. Could
> you help
> > me debug my WIP of porting the autotools tests to meson? They're just
> failing
> > randomly with no good debuging output:
> >
> > https://travis-ci.org/dcbaker/mesa/jobs/466665289
> >
> If you don't mind I'll have a look first thing tomorrow morning. It's
> 9:43pm and I've yet to cook some food :-\
>

I was able to catch and fix most of the remaining meson / travis build
errors. RFC patch series on the mailing list that applies on top of Dylan's
WIP branch.

Hope that helps!


> -Emil
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