[Mesa-dev] Lets talk about autotools

[Ian Romanick]

On 09/18/2018 12:16 PM, Gert Wollny wrote:
> 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.

I do the same thing.  The way I worked around this was to set the
install dir to the build dir.  My build script has something like:

DESTDIR=$PWD/$DIR ninja-build -C $DIR install

> 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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