[Mesa-dev] last call for autotools

[Marek Olšák]

So your issue is that meson upgrade broke the build and you are unable to
get config.log. Let me tell you something. Ninja upgrade also breaks the
build. I think that's the way it's going to be now. I think people will use
the new build system anyway as conf and compile time is all that matters.

Marek

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 1:19 AM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu wrote:

> I have to say that the user experience for autotools is WAY better
> than for meson. As a concrete example, I had a meson build. Then I
> updated meson (0.48.1 to 0.48.2). Now ninja -C foo doesn't work. meson
> --reconfigure (which presumably is what ninja would end up running)
> doesn't work. http://paste.debian.net/hidden/cf777f3e/
>
> So now what? I don't remember how that config was done, except that it
> was done the way I decided I needed it at the time. I have no way to
> recover it. With autotools, in such cases (which are immensely rare),
> you just run "head config.log" and it tells you what you did last
> time. And by updating the build component, now I have to rebuild
> EVERYTHING?
>
> meson is not at a point where it Just Works. It ... sometimes works.
> The fact that everyone has scripts which wrap meson is a symptom of
> that. I don't feel good about dumping the system that everyone (and I
> don't just mean people on this list -- I mean the wider open source
> community as well) knows how to use and has worked reliably for years
> (decades, really) to be replaced by a system that everyone is having
> problems with (it's not just me -- others are running into trouble too
> -- just look at this thread). It's just not ready yet.
>
>   -ilia
>
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 6:11 PM 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
> >
> > Dylan
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