On Mon, 2018-09-17 at 20:56 -0400, Ilia Mirkin wrote: > I'd also encourage writing a new "configure" script which > echo's instructions on how to operate meson -- it's really not > obvious, with alternating --prefix=bla -Dfoo=bla argument styles. > People know how to use autotools, but meson is a fairly new thing.
During its (still unfinished) transition to Meson, the GNOME project has successfully used configure scripts for compatibility with the autotools build API. See this one for example: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/json-glib/blob/8b6c216d60e1d54d9314c00931131fbfa7d15563/configure With this, you can keep doing the usual ./configure; make; make install dance and it uses Meson and Ninja under the hood (configure options are translated to meson options, some work might be needed for custom options) It was used to not block the migration to Meson, yet keep building on those platforms which didn't have Meson yet. Maybe a similar transition could work for Mesa, temporarily? Hope that helps, -- Mathieu _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
