[Mesa-dev] Lets talk about autotools

[Marek Olšák]

meson has a design defect that annoys me. I have a configure script. If I
want to change enabled drivers and run meson, it won't configure because
the directory exists, even if the meson parameters are different. I have to
add --reconfigure manually into the script. If I keep --reconfigure in the
script and the build directory doesn't exist, it doesn't configure.

There has to be a better solution than "meson ... || meson --reconfigure
...".

Marek

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 12:46 PM Dylan Baker <dylan at pnwbakers.com> wrote:

> 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
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