On 02/09/17 23:55, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Sat, 2 Sep 2017 12:53:05 +0930 Simon Lees <sfl...@suse.de> said: > >> >> >> On 02/09/17 10:51, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: >>> On Fri, 1 Sep 2017 20:38:59 +0200 marcel-hollerb...@t-online.de said: >>> >>>> On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 08:07:18PM +0200, Davide Andreoli wrote: >>>>> 2017-09-01 19:50 GMT+02:00 Mike Blumenkrantz >>>>> <michael.blumenkra...@gmail.com >>>>>> : >>>>> >>>>>> It seems that the two build systems have fallen out of sync far faster >>>>>> than I expected, and the autotools build is both no longer functional and >>>>>> cannot provide a dist which is able to build using meson. >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm not particularly interested in putting in even more work to try and >>>>>> maintain something which is pending removal, so if anyone is super >>>>>> interested in keeping it for the E22 release then patches are welcome, >>>>>> otherwise I'll plan to remove autotools entirely next week before >>>>>> starting the official release cycle. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> +1 >>>>> >>>> >>>> +1 >>>> >>>> Just probebly checking if meson versions etc. fit the most distros, so >>>> we dont leave users behind. >>> >>> i think then autogen.sh should do what rage does and do a meson build setup >>> and fix appropriate INSTALL files etc. for how to build... >>> >>> but we also should get some decent testing across multiple OS's like >>> freebsd, openbsd (i know netstar maintains these as running systems ! :)). >>> to ensure at least on a lot of targets it builds right. package maintainers >>> too would be really fantastic if they could switch and test there too in >>> package build env's >>> >> >> Speaking with a distro maintainers hat on, for this to be usable there >> needs to be considerably more documentation, neither meson --help, >> README or README.wayland tell me how to enable or disable building with >> git. All that stuff simply should be there before you get distro's to >> try it (or intend to remove autotools) otherwise your just wasting our >> time. Equally the html documentation is not built automatically and >> there is no indication of how one might build it. > > copying the above docs over and autogen.sh over would solve that. i can do it > now if you want... but it's mean autogen is now meson not autofoo so autofoo > build will effectively be disabled for most people. >
If meson --help listed the supported set of build flags that would be a good starting point and likely good enough for me atleast but as of when I wrote the email there was nothing which is annoying. >> As a side note, git is also required for building (which wasn't the case >> before). > > that is actually incorrect. git is required to create the dist tarball only. > Git is required because if you try and do a build on a VM or chroot without git installed meson will complain that git is not installed, whether its used or not is another question but currently the e build requires it. I'm not saying that its bad to need it its just another change distro packagers should be aware of. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B
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