On Tue, Mar 26, 2019, 2:05 PM Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On 3/26/19 2:35 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote:
> > I originally posted most of this to lfs-dev, thinking that since
> > meson was in LFS there must be something there which used it.  But
> > AFAICS everything which uses meson is in BLFS, so moving this to
> > here, with some updated details.
> >
> > I was galancing at phoronix this afternoon (often taken over by the
> > peanut gallery, or dubious measurements, but sometimes interesting).
> >
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-Mesa-Meson-Debug-Build
> >
> > AFAICS we do NOT specify buildtype on any meson packages, but on
> > cmake we usually specify Release builds ?
> >
> > It appears that fedora were specifying 'plain', and that left debug
> > assertions in the build, which slowed down some things in games
> > (e.g. loading levels).
> >
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109939#c16
> >
> >  From that, the default for *mesa* is 'debugoptimized' which seems to
> > be what we are using.  I've now got verbose output for my test
> > builds (ninja -v) and the default setup does not specify -DNDEBUG.
> >
> > On the current machine's setup (not building mesademos for this, I
> > think I'm enabling everything in mesa, including wayland backend):
> >
> > Build by the book, with logs not in the measurement:
> >       mesa-19.0.0 1.5 GB
> >       DESTDIR 611 MB
> >
> > Specifying -Dbuildtype=release:
> >       mesa-19.0.0 374 MB
> >       DESTDIR 91 MB
> >
> > That uses -O3 (there are suggestions distros might not want to use
> > that), and it passes -DNDEBUG.
> >
> > On my real build at the weekend, the log was unclear about the
> > commands actually used (hence my need for ninja -v), but it noticed
> > my CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS (-O2 -march=native).
> >
> > Doing another release build, but passing those (some parts are C,
> > others are C++) the initial -O3 for the release is early in the
> > arguments, my -O2 -march=native come much later so take effect.
> > With that (although I probably only want to pass the march part if
> > doing a release build on a fast machine) I get
> >       mesa-19.0.0 345 MB
> >       DESTDIR 75 MB.
> >
> > Summary: for mesa, -Dbuildtype=release looks like the way to go.
> >
> > The meson docs are at https://mesonbuild.com/Running-Meson.html and
> > my reading of that page suggests that 'debugoptimized' is not always
> > the default.
> >
> > Will look at some other meson packages later, if there is any
> > interest in this.
>

FYI, meant to mention before, gnome- calculator has a meson related build
failure.

Two thoughts.  First, what happens to the installed sizes if they are
> stripped?  Second, a quick check of BLFS shows 62 pakages with meson,
> most in gnome.  As a side note, there are 162 mentions of cmake.
>
>    -- Bruce
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