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

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Hi

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 8:26 PM Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.

If there is no such plan, now that qemu switched to meson, can we
reconsider the switch of dtc?

Thanks





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