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

[Jose Fonseca]

On 11/01/2019 22:38, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 2:28 PM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 5:12 PM Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Gert Wollny <gw.fossdev at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> NAKed-by: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu>
>>
>> [nouveau]
>>
>>> 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>
>>> Reviewed-by: Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com>
>>
>> [intel]
>>
>>> Acked-by: Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com>
>>
>> [freedreno]
>>
>>> Acked-by: Marek Olšák <marek.olsak at amd.com>
>>
>> [radeon]
>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner at gmail.com>
>>
>> [etnaviv]
>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
>>
>> [vc4]
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Gert Wollny <gw.fossdev at gmail.com>
>>
>> [sorry Gert, not sure how to classify you]
>>
>> I think the vmware team (which largely maintains llvmpipe and svga) is
>> probably worth hearing from -- I believe they've largely stayed out of
>> it. But an ack/nack would be good. Also virgl isn't represented, I
>> believe. Probably not *required* to hear from these, but perhaps worth
>> a poke?
> 
> Sure. I've Cc'd Dave, Brian, José, and Roland on this reply.

Thanks for letting us know.  No concerns for my part FWIW, though my 
involvement on Mesa has been minimal lately.  I think for some of my 
colleagues might be different, but I've been using SCons almost 
exclusively for a very long time, so autotools removal doesn't affect me.

autotools could never become "the build the system to rule them all", in 
Mesa-land, due to the lack of Windows, but there's at least hope Meson 
might one day become it.

For the time where SCons is still around, I wonder if there's value in 
keeping Makefile.sources, or we should just fold them into SConscripts? 
Because they add complexity to SCons which now makes little point, 
unless there's some way to share source file lists between SCons and Meson?

Jose