[Mesa-dev] Lets talk about autotools

[Gert Wollny]

Am Montag, den 17.09.2018, 17:07 -0400 schrieb Marek Olšák:
> I don't see radeonsi_dri.so. How/where is radeonsi_dri.so created?
+1 

With autotools I can use an uninstalled but compiled version of meson
(e.g. for testing) by pointing LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH
to the $BUILDDIR/lib and $BUILDDIR/lib/gallium respectively.  With
meson it seems one always needs to run "ninja install" to get the
actual drivers and libraries somewhere.

It would be nice if meson would act like autotools in that regard by
creating the drivers and libraries in specific directories (also as a
configure option if there is concern about compilation speed). 

Thanks,
Gert 

> 
> Thanks,
> Marek
> 
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 12:44 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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