[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] Update the documentation for meson

Dylan Baker dylan at pnwbakers.com
Fri Mar 2 16:52:50 UTC 2018


Quoting Emil Velikov (2018-03-02 06:26:43)
> On 1 March 2018 at 19:34, Dylan Baker <dylan at pnwbakers.com> wrote:
> > Meson is pretty well tested and works in most configurations now, so we
> > can remove the warning about it being unsuited for actual use.
> >
> > It's also worth documenting that meson 0.42.0 or greater is required.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dylan Baker <dylan.c.baker at intel.com>
> > ---
> >  docs/meson.html | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> >  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/docs/meson.html b/docs/meson.html
> > index 77f89b0c6c7..782cc198649 100644
> > --- a/docs/meson.html
> > +++ b/docs/meson.html
> > @@ -18,11 +18,20 @@
> >
> >  <h2 id="basic">1. Basic Usage</h2>
> >
> > -<p><strong>The Meson build system for Mesa is still under active development,
> > -and should not be used in production environments.</strong></p>
> > +<p><strong>The Meson build system is generally considered stable and ready
> > +for production</strong></p>
> >
> > -<p>The meson build is currently only tested on linux, and is known to not work
> > -on macOS, Windows, and haiku. This will be fixed.</p>
> > +<p>The meson build is currently known to work on Linux, macOS, Cygwin, Haiku,
> > +FreeBSD, DragonflyBSD, and NetBSD, it is believed to work on OpenBSD.</p>
> > +
> Did you test all of these platforms - in particular Cygwin and BSDs?
> 
> I'd use something like - "has been tested on X and should work with B".
> 
> -Emil

Jon has been working on Cygwin and macOS, I've built on macOS, but I haven't run
any tests. I have built on the all the BSD's except OpenBSD, although I didn't
do any testing beyond the mesa unit tests.

Dylan
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