[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] autotools: Deprecate the use of autotools

[Gert Wollny]

Hi Ilia, 

Am Sonntag, den 16.12.2018, 12:40 -0500 schrieb Ilia Mirkin:
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 6:24 AM Gert Wollny <gw.fossdev at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 
> > Since Meson will eventually be the only build system deprecate
> > autotools
> > now. It can still be used by invoking configure with the flag
> >   --enable-autotools
> > 

[...]
> If the concern is that there are 2 build systems and it's unclear
> which to use, I'd definitely err on the side of making meson the one
> requiring extra hoops to jump through.
> 

I think Jason already pointed out that this patch doesn't remove
anything. If you have followed the threads you've seen that I'm also
not exactly pushing for removing autotools, but I think since it is
going to happen anyway, it would be best to give everyone a little more
incentive to try out meson so that hopefully all the remaining issue
are brought up and can be fixed, before autotools is removed in a
stable release. 

In any case, I wouldn't want to push this patch before [1] is fixed so
that one can indeed upgrade meson without having to manually redo the
configuration. 

Best, 
Gert 

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109071