[Mesa-maintainers] RFC discussion using meson for Mesa

[Emil Velikov]

Hi all,

For some of you that have missed it there's a discussion (of sorts)
whether we should use meson to build Mesa.
Thread starts here [1], with libdrm as "learning exercise".

Feel free to chime-in [be that here or in-reply to the thread], even
if you feel overwhelmed by some of the strong opinions in there - be
that mine or not.

Disclaimer: There's finders pointed and people bashing autotools with
limited [imho] technical details/reasoning.

Fwiw I'm not excited about autotools and our our three build systems,
despite that doing most of the heavy lifting over the last years
[after "taking over" from Matt].
Then again, I'm not convinced that meson is the solution we're looking for.

-Emil
[1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2017-March/148314.html