Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/1] Add support for meson building

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Hi Ariel,

On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 01:27:22PM -0300, Ariel D'Alessandro wrote:
> On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 5:18 AM Sean Young <sean@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > There seems to be no way overriding systemd_systemdir or udevdir. This
> > would be very useful.
> 
> There's a way, as follows:
> 
> Meson way:
>     $ meson -Dsystemdsystemunitdir=$my_path build/
>     $ meson -Dudevdir=$my_path build/
> 
> Autoconf way:
>     $ ./configure --with-systemdsystemunitdir=$my_path
>     $ ./configure --with-udevdir=$my_path
> 
> The above will set systemd_systemdir or udevdir with the specified path.

Great, thank you!

> > I don't think this can be done with autoconf either, so this is probably
> > a nice to have. However with autoconf I can do "make -k install" to
> > skip installing system udev/systemd files, but I don't know how to do
> > with ninja.
> 
> Shall we provide an option to skip installing these system files?

With the above options, I don't think it is needed.

> > Lastly the meson build does not support sync-with-kernel. We can add
> > this at some later point, I suppose.
> 
> True, that's not done yet. We should support it in the meson build in order
> to replace autotools completely. I'll try to tackle that down ASAP.

I would think it's not needed for an initial version of the meson build
system to be merged, just speaking for myself of course.


Thanks for the great work!

Sean



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