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

[Jonathan Gray]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 03:46:35PM +0200, Eero Tamminen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 13.1.2019 9.44, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> ...> As we can not depend on python to build Mesa in OpenBSD I will have to
> > go back to maintaining a local Mesa build system if autotools is removed.
> 
> Mesa already needs python-mako (for code generation) with Autotools.
> Why Meson also needing Python is a problem?

Python generated files can be generated per release to not depend on
python at build time.

All of the files generated by python used in a build of Mesa on OpenBSD are
already included in Mesa tarballs except for egd_tables.h

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103911