Quoting Ilia Mirkin (2018-09-17 17:56:15) > On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 12:44 PM, Dylan Baker <dy...@pnwbakers.com> wrote: > > I feel like for !windows meson is in good enough shape at this point that we > > can start having the discussion about deleting the autotools build. So, is > > there > > anything left that autotools can do that meson cannot (that we actually > > want to > > implement)? And, what is a reasonable time-table to remove the autotools > > build? > > I think we could reasonably remove it as soon as 18.3 if others felt > > confident > > that it would work for them. > > I remember there was a particularly egregious failure mode for meson > where running "meson configure help" would fail if any of the > dependencies were missing for whatever the default was. Has that been > resolved? 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. > > Cheers, > > -ilia
I got a patch into (I think) 0.46 that allows the use -D for all options, all the time. Now you can say `meson build -Dprefix=blah -Dfoo=blah` and it will work. I think there's some work to refactor the way that argument processing is handled so that that -- and -D are interchangeable. Dylan
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