Hi all, A year ago Zbigniew (CC:) implemented meson build-system as a second build system for util-linux. Today I finally updated it and pushed to the topic/meson branch on github. You can try it: git checkout -f topic/meson meson build ninja -C build ls build/ No panic, we are going to keep autotools as our primary build-system for the next years :-) The goal is to try to provide an alternative, make it more stable, and maybe in future use it. The current util-linux meson configuration is probably not mature enough to be used as a build-system for end-users and downstream distributions, but it seems as a nice alternative for developers, it's faster and it produces real binaries rather than libtool scripts. $ git clean -xdf $ time ( meson build; ninja -C build ) real 0m9.093s user 0m12.797s sys 0m5.232s $ git clean -xdf $ time ( ./autogen.sh; ./configure; make -j ) real 0m41.563s user 1m52.681s sys 0m30.346s All the meson configuration is completely independent on autotools or another code in the package. I'll probably merge it to the master branch ASAP to make it easy to use for contributors. Comments & objections? Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com
