Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] RFC: Add meson build system

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On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 2:07 PM Frank Rowand <frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> + Rob
>
> and my response inline below.
>
> On 10/09/2019 05:20, marcandre.lureau@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > This series adds support for meson build system. The main reason for
> > this, beside build-sys modernization, is to enable subproject()
> > support in qemu.
> >
> > Maintaining several build systems is a pain, so eventually it would be
> > nice to deprecate Makefile build-sys, as I can imagine this may take a
>
> Removing the Makefile method would be problematic for the Linux kernel
> source tree, where we import dtc from the upstream project and build
> it as part of the kernel build.

That was my first thought too. However, we do our own kbuild
makefiles, so we're not affected there. We do copy over Makefile.dtc,
and probably could use it, but don't currently.

Rob




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