On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 11:54:41AM +0100, Tobias Klausmann wrote: > Hi! > > On Mon, 30 Jan 2017, William Hubbs wrote: > > I have been looking at the meson build system [1] [2], and I like what I > > see. > > > > I have opened an issue on OpenRC's github wrt migrating OpenRC to the > > meson build system [3]. > > > > As I said on the bug, the downside is the addition of py3 and ninja as > > build time dependencies, but I think the upside (a build system where > > we don't have to worry about parallel make issues or portability) > > outweighs that. > > > > What do folks think here? > > Meson isn't even keyworded anywhere but amd64 and x86 and I > couldn't find an indication that they care about off-mainstream > architectures at all. Yes, it's written in Python as such is more > portable than if it were written in C or somesuch, but for a > build system, the arch it runs on and targets are more important > than for most other programs. You are right that meson isn't keyworded anywhere but amd64 and x86, and I will ask them about this because If they didn't want to support off-mainstream arches this would be a blocker. Not just for OpenRC, but for all consumers that convert to it.
As I said on the upstream bug, this would be a long-term project if it goes through. The other blockers would be ninja and the cross build issue pointed out earlier at least. William
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