So your issue is that meson upgrade broke the build and you are unable to get config.log. Let me tell you something. Ninja upgrade also breaks the build. I think that's the way it's going to be now. I think people will use the new build system anyway as conf and compile time is all that matters.
Marek On Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 1:19 AM Ilia Mirkin <imir...@alum.mit.edu wrote: > I have to say that the user experience for autotools is WAY better > than for meson. As a concrete example, I had a meson build. Then I > updated meson (0.48.1 to 0.48.2). Now ninja -C foo doesn't work. meson > --reconfigure (which presumably is what ninja would end up running) > doesn't work. http://paste.debian.net/hidden/cf777f3e/ > > So now what? I don't remember how that config was done, except that it > was done the way I decided I needed it at the time. I have no way to > recover it. With autotools, in such cases (which are immensely rare), > you just run "head config.log" and it tells you what you did last > time. And by updating the build component, now I have to rebuild > EVERYTHING? > > meson is not at a point where it Just Works. It ... sometimes works. > The fact that everyone has scripts which wrap meson is a symptom of > that. I don't feel good about dumping the system that everyone (and I > don't just mean people on this list -- I mean the wider open source > community as well) knows how to use and has worked reliably for years > (decades, really) to be replaced by a system that everyone is having > problems with (it's not just me -- others are running into trouble too > -- just look at this thread). It's just not ready yet. > > -ilia > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 6:11 PM Dylan Baker <dy...@pnwbakers.com> wrote: > > > > Meson 0.49.0 has been out for a couple of days now, and I'd like to make > the > > final call for autotools. My patch is so massive that it's a huge pain > to send > > to the list, the latest versions is here: > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbaker/mesa/commits/delete-autotools > > > > Dylan > > _______________________________________________ > > mesa-dev mailing list > > mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev > _______________________________________________ > mesa-dev mailing list > mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev >
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