[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] autotools: Deprecate the use of autotools

[Matt Turner]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 2:17 PM Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 4:11 PM Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: Gert Wollny <gw.fossdev at gmail.com>
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>> Since Meson will eventually be the only build system deprecate autotools
>> now. It can still be used by invoking configure with the flag
>>   --enable-autotools
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>> NAKed-by: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu>
>> Acked-by: Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom at intel.com>
>> Acked-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org>
>> Acked-by: Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwerlin at intel.com>
>> Acked-by: Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net>
>> Acked-by: Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com>
>> Acked-by: Marek Olšák <marek.olsak at amd.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner at gmail.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
>> Signed-off-by: Gert Wollny <gw.fossdev at gmail.com>
>> ---
>> I think there's support for overriding the sole objection to this patch.
>>
>> To confirm:
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>>     (1) The plan is to remove Autotools, perhaps after the 19.0 release
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>>     (2) This patch's purpose is to ensure that everyone knows that
>>         Autotools will be going away (think: people who build Mesa as
>>         part of an automated process and wouldn't notice a deprecation
>>         warning unless it requires some action from them)
>>
>>     (3) We expect all reasonable concerns about Meson to be resolved
>>         before Autotools is removed (e.g., reconfiguration problems,
>>         retrieving configuration command line, configuration status
>>         output, etc.)
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> Do we have a tracker bug for these yet?  It'd be good to have one if we don't already so that we can keep track of the reasonable blocking issues.

We did not, but that's a good idea. I've created a tracker bug:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109323

and will file blocking issues for the three things I mentioned above.