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

[Rob Clark]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 3:56 PM Jonathan Gray <jsg at jsg.id.au> wrote:
>
> 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

is pre-generating the ninja build files that meson generates an
option?  (I assume that the generated ninja ends up not being portable
across different build environments, but maybe for OpenBSD the build
environment is uniform enough??  idk, just a thought)

Anyways, a lot of other projects have been switching to meson, I guess
OpenBSD will have to figure out how to deal getting python into build
tree sooner or later, right?

BR,
-R