[Mesa-dev] last call for autotools

[Dylan Baker]

Quoting Gert Wollny (2018-12-16 03:57:48)
> 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.

Yes, the build has to be configured with 0.49 to have a cmd_line.txt

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

I'll look at that, it doesn't look good

Dylan

> 
> Best,
> Gert
> 
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