[Mesa-dev] Lets talk about autotools

[Ian Romanick]

On 11/26/2018 03:44 PM, Marek Olšák wrote:
> I don't run meson. I have a script that runs meson. I want to just run
> the script and I want to it configure or reconfigure.
> 
> I don't want to add this failure path into my script: "meson ... ||
> meson --reconfigure ..."

I have a similar build script.  In my particular, weird setup I've had
something like this since forever:

    if [ -d $BUILD_DIR ]; then
        meson --reconfigure ...
    else
        meson ...
    fi

I even had to do some junk like that in the autotools days.  I'd love to
have something better. :(

> Marek
> 
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 6:36 PM Dylan Baker <dylan at pnwbakers.com
> <mailto:dylan at pnwbakers.com>> wrote:
> 
>     You mean you want to change the driver list?
> 
>     meson builddir
>     meson configure builddir -Ddri-drivers= -Dvulkan-drivers=
>     -Dgallium-drivers=radeonsi
>     ninja -C builddir  # which will trigger a reconfigure
> 
>     Or was there something else you are trying to do?
> 
>     Dylan
> 
>     Quoting Marek Olšák (2018-11-26 15:29:40)
>     > 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
>     <mailto: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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