[Mesa-dev] Lets talk about autotools

[Eric Anholt]

Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> writes:

> 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. :(

Agreed with this being an irritating feature of meson.
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