On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 10:04:31AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 09:16:30AM +0100, Pavel Hrdina wrote: > > This patch series is motivated by the effort to adopt Meson as our > > build system but all of it improves the current build system on its own. > > > > It moves the burden to run bootstrap/autoreconf to developers which > > means it will save some time for others when there is any change to > > the build system. > > So effectively we're committing all of the GNULIB modules we're > currently using into GIT. Historically this was undesirable as > we didn't really want to version control files that we're already > getting from the sub-module & have huge pointless diffs everytime > we refresh GNULIB. Given our intent to eliminate GNULIB though, > and switch to Meson, this is reasonable to do as a short term > hack to simplify our Meson integration. > > FWIW, I have more patches pending that will eliminate another > 20-ish GNULIB modules that I hope to submit this week, though > given freeze tomorrow, they'll have to wait till 6.1.0 open. > > I think its probably wise to keep this series until 6.1.0 too, > since changing the build system in a big way just before release > freeze is kinda risky. Agreed on that, I was not planning to push it before freeze. Pavel
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