Hi, With the Autotools, recursive make is very convenient to re-build only the stuff present in a sub-directory.
And with builddir == srcdir, it's convenient to do things like: $ cd src/ $ make $ touch file-that-i-modified.c $ make To see the warnings only for the file that I modified. (see also this thread for more details on my workflow: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2016-August/msg00047.html "builddir != srcdir in jhbuild breaks my workflow") I've tried this command in a project using meson: ``` $ meson . Error during basic setup: Source and build directories must not be the same. Create a pristine build directory. ``` So meson doesn't support builddir == srcdir. This is a no-go for me. And I suppose meson/ninja doesn't support recursive ninja either (and anyway recursive ninja with builddir != srcdir would not be convenient). It's a pity, because meson on the paper looks nice, with faster build and multiplatform support (including Visual Studio, currently with the Autotools some GNOME projects have a separate build/win32/ directory to support Visual Studio). So, that's it, I think I'll continue to use the Autotools in my projects for the foreseeable future. -- Sébastien _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
