[Mesa-stable] [Mesa-dev] [PATCH 7/7] configure.ac: static link LLVM by default

[Emil Velikov]

On 5 October 2017 at 17:34, Dylan Baker <dylan at pnwbakers.com> wrote:
> This is neither a for or against, but I thought I'd add this to the discussion.
>
> Currently meson only supports using LLVM as a shared library, so this is going to
> make the meson build and the autotools build do different things by default. I
> understand that meson is still in development and no distros will use it for a
> while yet (the only people who currently can are anv and radv devs), but it
> sounds like from what Tom and Michel are saying LLVM has this issue solved, and
> having the two build systems do something different by default seems less than
> ideal.
>
True it's less than ideal if one does X while another Y.

I would encourage you to read my follow-up. Yes, I was silly enough
and forgot to mention that in the original summary.

Thanks
Emil
P.S. Something something top posting, please?