[Mesa-dev] Lets talk about autotools

[Marek Olšák]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 11:05 PM Dylan Baker <dylan at pnwbakers.com> wrote:

> Quoting Dylan Baker (2018-09-17 09:44:07)
> > I feel like for !windows meson is in good enough shape at this point
> that we
> > can start having the discussion about deleting the autotools build. So,
> is there
> > anything left that autotools can do that meson cannot (that we actually
> want to
> > implement)? And, what is a reasonable time-table to remove the autotools
> build?
> > I think we could reasonably remove it as soon as 18.3 if others felt
> confident
> > that it would work for them.
> >
> > Dylan
>
> Okay, time for an update on things and a chance to talk about what else we
> need.
>
> Support for llvm-config (and any binary, actually) overriding has landed in
> meson, and will be present in the 0.49.0 release, which is due out
> December 9th.
> support for ICC has improved a great deal already, and I have a series
> here:
> https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/4359 (which may unfortunately not
> land until after 0.49) which should get ICC into pretty good shape on
> Linux and
> Mac, including actually checking that arguments are understood (which
> should
> allow us to drop the prefix test from SWR). I have some ideas on how we
> might
> remove auto options, some of them can already use meson's "feature"
> https://mesonbuild.com/Build-options.html#features option (which should
> make
> distro packagers happy too), for arch and OS specific options I have some
> ideas
> and I'll continue following up with those upstream.
>
> For those interested in llvm-config overriding, with meson out of git you
> can
> add a files like:
>
> $ cat ~/.local/share/meson/native/llvm-6.0
> [binaries]
> llvm-conifg = '/usr/local/lib/llvm-6/bin/llvm-config'
>
> and invoke meson with:
> meson builddir --native-file llvm-6.0
>
> which will configure with the specified llvm-config, and remember the
> llvm-config used on subsequent reconfigurations. You can override all
> binaries
> from a native file as well, so if you want to use a specific python3 or
> compiler you can do that, and you can load multiple native files in a
> single
> invocation.
>
> Is there anything else we're missing in meson to be able to drop autotools?
>

Everything seems OK here.

Marek
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