[Spice-devel] [PATCH RFC] Support for building with Meson

[Eduardo Lima (Etrunko)]

On 23/03/18 07:58, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 11:51:41AM +0100, Christophe de Dinechin wrote:
>> Hi Eduardo,
>>
>>
>> Thanks for sharing.
>>
>> Out of curiosity, I understand why you want to add Meson, but why remove autotools right away?
> 
> Note in particular that this will make it impossible to build on a RHEL-7
> platform, since it lacks both Meson and Python 3 in a standard install
> AFAIK.
> 
> Given there's no RHEL-8 yet and RHEL-7 is actively maintained with SPICE
> bits have frequent backports & rebases, it might be a little too soon to
> drop RHEL-7 by killing autotools IMHO. 
> 

You beat me to it, I was aware of not being possible to build for RHEL.
Well, even for Fedora the standard packaging still don't match our
requirements, so I believe it will take quite a long time to remove the
autotools build for good.

In the meantime we can enjoy much faster system for development.


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Eduardo de Barros Lima (Etrunko)
Software Engineer - RedHat
etrunko at redhat.com