I forgot to mention some code statistics: meson: 3769 total lines of code 95387 characters
autotools: 4826 total lines of code 160933 characters On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 6:13 PM Mike Blumenkrantz < michael.blumenkra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I've spent some time over the past couple days investigating ways to > improve efficiency during development. I came across the meson build system > (http://mesonbuild.com/), and the time comparisons to autotools made > meson seem staggeringly fast. Additionally, it seems to be quite flexible > and have cross-compilation support. > > A fully functional meson build system for enlightenment can now be found > in my "meson" branch. My current benchmarks with it: > > meson: > meson . build 2.05s user 0.64s system 103% cpu 2.607 total > ninja 379.02s user 60.36s system 347% cpu 2:06.31 total > sudo ninja install 2.36s user 0.35s system 98% cpu 2.746 total > > autotools: > ( autoreconf -fi && ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 ) > 16.46s user 2.74s system 96% cpu 19.830 total > make -j16 536.93s user 145.03s system 349% cpu 3:15.22 total > sudo make -j16 install 11.75s user 2.16s system 165% cpu 8.427 total > > > As seen above, this saves me over a minute for each rebuild, and I will > likely merge it into the main tree soon if no major issues are reported. > > > Known (unfixable) issue: > * If you have a configured source directory (ie. you have run > ./configure), the build may error due to inclusion of conflicting headers > generated from autotools and headers generated from meson. make clean will > not delete these headers; they require manual deletion or maintainer-clean. > > > To use after pulling meson branch: > 1. <Install meson+ninja> > 2. cd enlightenment > 3. meson . build && cd build > 3.5. [optional] mesonconf -D[option]=[value] (most options are now, > instead of --enable-option, -Doption=true; all options listed when running > mesonconf with no params) > 4. ninja > 5. sudo ninja install > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
