[Mesa-dev] Lets talk about autotools

[Erik Faye-Lund]

On Tue, 2018-11-27 at 11:13 +0200, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> On 17.11.2018 6.04, Dylan Baker 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.
> 
> Hi, just a note that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ships with meson 0.45.1 and
> will
> get Mesa backports up until and including 20.0.x, so I wonder how
> complex these required new features in meson are to be backported, or
> perhaps easily worked around? Backporting a whole new version of
> meson
> might not happen..
> 

I don't know if this is acceptable or not for packaging, but one could
always install meson from pip, I would assume...