[Mesa-dev] last call for autotools

[Gert Wollny]

Am Freitag, den 14.12.2018, 13:11 +0100 schrieb Gert Wollny:
> Am Freitag, den 14.12.2018, 01:19 -0500 schrieb Ilia Mirkin:
> > 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/
> 
> I think that was fixed with this PR (although I so far I didn't try
> to use this new feature, so I don't know how well it works):
>   https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/4356
> The error message should probably be updated accordingly. 

Today I updated to 0.49 (from 0.47) and there it didn't work (the file
meson-private/cmd_line.txt was missing), so my guess this is only
availabe for builds that were already created with 0.49.

However, there it doesn't work for me: 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109071

Best,
Gert