[Mesa-maintainers] RFC discussion using meson for Mesa

[Marek Olšák]

Despite some negative feedback I gave in the other thread, I think
ninja is great because it's faster than make.

I've also noticed that building Mesa with a hot ccache and make is
very slow, while building LLVM (much bigger project) with a hot ccache
and ninja is very fast. It looks like make can copy 10 files from
ccache per second, while ninja can copy 100 files from ccache per
second. (using an SSD here)

Marek

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 5:08 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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