[Mesa-dev] Lets talk about autotools

[Timo Aaltonen]

On 29.11.2018 20.22, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 9:47 AM Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> In Mesa, we have different parts not used by different teams. As such
>> we tend to remove stuff when nobody is around to maintain it anymore.
> 
> We drop things for that reason, but also when something is no longer
> needed. I don't think autotools is needed. As far as I know all
> distributions have switched to Meson quite some time ago. I just
> removed the last version of Mesa from Gentoo that we were still
> building with autotools.

FTR, I converted the Debian Mesa packaging to Meson today, and realized
that the feature in the upcoming Meson is not needed at all by the
packaging (it can find llvm-config-N.N just fine..). So I'm fine with
removing autotools support :)


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