Quoting Gert Wollny (2018-12-04 15:42:58) > Am Dienstag, den 04.12.2018, 14:01 -0800 schrieb Matt Turner: > > On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 12:48 PM Gert Wollny <gw.foss...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > FWIW, I also don't understand the urge to remove the automake build > > > system files, they account for less then 1% of line count in the > > > source > > > tree, Emil offered to maintain the build system in a way that > > > nobody > > > who doesn't want to deal with has to touch it > > > > Do you see any value in removing the autotools build system at all? > > If there was nobody willing to maintain it and nobody who wants to use > it then I would say it makes sense to remove it, because it doesn't > make sense to keep something that is unused and will bitrot, but right > now this is not the case. In light of what Emil wrote I could also ask: > what's the harm in keeping it? > > Personally, I use both, meson/ninja is great when you want to build > the whole project, but being able to go to a subdirectory and just run > "make something" there has its virtues too. > > Best, > Gert >
Is that really any different than doing a `ninja -C builddir/ src/mesa/libmesa_gallium.a` (or whatever target you want)? Especially since you can tab complete ninja targets. Dylan
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