On a Friday in 2022, Peter Krempa wrote:
Only the preparation of sources differs between a build from a git checkout vs a build from tarball. Restructure the docs to outline the difference and combine information on how to configure libvirt. Most notably the suggestion to use '-Dsystem=true' was present only for the steps to build a git checkout. Suggest also running the testsuite as part of the build step. Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@xxxxxxxxxx> --- docs/compiling.rst | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/compiling.rst b/docs/compiling.rst index c167fd238f..1969b9b0b0 100644 --- a/docs/compiling.rst +++ b/docs/compiling.rst
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-The ``build`` directory now contains the built binaries. +By default when the ``meson`` is run from within a GIT checkout, it will turn +on -Werror for builds. This can be disabled with --werror=false, but this is +not recommended. + +**Note:** Please ensure that you have the appropriate minimal ``meson`` version
In a following patch you remove this Note: prefix. I don't care either way, but please put the final version here, to reduce churn. Jano
+installed in your build environment. The minimal version for a specific package +can be checked in the top level ``meson.build`` file in the ``meson_version`` +field.
