On 5 September 2017 at 13:36, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ok, this time around a proper patch series with cover letter and a pile of > fixes (bunch of them thanks to Eric) thrown on top. > > The motivation for this has 2 primary reasons: > > - I want a build system that's fast, especially for hacking on the > library. Currently with over 300 binaries the relinking step every time > you change the library is extremely painful. > > - I want a build system that I can hack on. After years of automake, I > still don't get it. After a few days of meson I have at least the > illusion I understand stuff. And that's with an obviously still fairly > fresh tool with the occasional sharp corner (lesson learned: if it > complains about the meson files, it's a missing comman nearby). > > - Finally there's the question of whether this will die like previous > attempts at a better build toolchain, or whether the meson/ninja combo > will win. There's a lot of very enthusastic initial conversion in > various X.org projects, and the people I've chatted are extremely > positive on this. I think meson/ninja could very well be the git of the > build: Painful to use in the first years, but has the fundamental rights > and will win in the end. > > Assuming we can get some consensus around this I'd like to merge it and > polish the meson support in-tree, it's kinda growing into a bigger series > already. And of course we need to keep autohell working for probably a > fairly long time, at least for the tools that distro install. Yes please. I've taken a couple of passes looking at it, and it seems fine to me. Acked-by: Daniel Stone <daniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cheers, Daniel _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
