On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 10:33:02AM -0300, Ariel D'Alessandro wrote: > Hi all, > > After a couple of RFCs, here's the final patchset adding support for the > meson build system. > > All functionality provided by the autotools based build was ported to > meson, except sync-with-kernel. I guess we can add it at some later > point and have this merged anyway. sync-with-kernel is a few fragments of shell that live in various parts of the tree (Makefiles). It's just static shell, the build system doesn't need to do any substitions. I think sync-with-kernel doesn't really belong in the build system; This can be moved into its own shell script. > Native and cross compilation has been tested with several options. Any > feedback, testing or suggestions are welcome. Looking forward to see > this merged in the next release hopefully :-) > > Here's a simple comparison between meson and autotools performance for a > native build: > > $ time meson build/ > [...] > real 0m3.172s > user 0m2.698s > sys 0m0.577s > $ time ninja -C build/ -j4 > [...] > real 0m19.533s > user 1m11.860s > sys 0m7.956s > > $ time (./bootstrap.sh && ./configure) > [...] > real 0m19.289s > user 0m16.448s > sys 0m2.756s > $ time make -j4 > [...] > real 0m55.250s > user 2m29.425s > sys 0m10.829s Nice! This will really help when I'm testing on the rpi. Sean
