On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 11:53:56AM +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote: > So I was finally able to produce the patches to port libvirt to Meson. > Obviously, it is a lot of changes. It might look that some of the > patches could be squashed together but I would rather have it as > separated as possible to make the review not that difficult. > > Once we are done with review I suggest to squash all patches to single > patch as it doesn't make sense to keep them separated as it will not be > possible to build complete libvirt code by any of the build systems. > Trying to achieve that would be even more challenging and the review > would me more difficult. > > The reasoning behind taking this approach is to have 1:1 conversion from > autotools to Meson where each patch removes that part from autotools. It > serves as a check that nothing is skipped and to make sure that the > conversion is complete. > > As probably most of us know Meson is completely different build system > and one of the most challenging things was to deal with the fact that > meson doesn't allow user functions and that everything has to be defined > before it is used. > > Patches are available in my Gitlab repo as well: > > git clone -b meson https://gitlab.com/phrdina/libvirt.git I compared the contents of config.h and meson-config.h for the before and after state, looking at wha "#define" are present. I couple of problems appear HAVE_DECL_SEEK_HOLE, HAVE_LIBATTR, and HAVE_LIBUTIL, WITH_PM_UTILS were not set in meson-config.h Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
