Hi Sam
2017-03-30 23:54 GMT+02:00 Sam Thursfield <sss...@gmail.com>: > Hello > I've been working on build instructions for Tracker using Meson. > They are now pretty much ready for use! Nice work! > You can find them in the branch wip/sam/meson: > https://git.gnome.org/browse/tracker/commit/?h=wip/sam/meson > > To use, you need to install Meson, which can either be done from Pip > (pip3 install --user meson), from a distro package (but beware that it > might be old), or you can run it right from Git > (git://github.com/mesonbuild/meson). > > Then you do something like this: > > mkdir build > cd build > meson .. > ninja-build Hm, did you mean "ninja" here? > You can run the test suite: > > ninja-build test > > And `ninja-build install` to install of course. > > Meson accepts standard arguments like --prefix, but to change the > Tracker-specific options you need to run mesonconf. Run it in the build > directory with no arguments to see all the available options, and pass > `-D option=value` to set something. > > I've compared an install of this with an equivalent Autotools build. So > I'm confident there aren't major regressions, but it does require more > testing. Help with that is appreciated! > > Here are a few remaining issues: > > * There's no `make dist` equivalent. We can use `git archive` to > produce tarballs, but these won't have the .c files generated by > valac. That said, shipping the generated .c files does make the > Vala preprocessor useless so it would be good if we can stop, > but that could break things for downstreams unexpectedly. As one of your downstreams (Debian), I wouldn't have a problem of not shipping pre-generated files (for gtk-doc and valac). So a git archive tarball would be fine with me. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
