On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 11:05 PM Dylan Baker <dy...@pnwbakers.com> wrote:
> Quoting Dylan Baker (2018-09-17 09:44:07) > > 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. > > > > Dylan > > Okay, time for an update on things and a chance to talk about what else we > need. > > Support for llvm-config (and any binary, actually) overriding has landed in > meson, and will be present in the 0.49.0 release, which is due out > December 9th. > support for ICC has improved a great deal already, and I have a series > here: > https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/4359 (which may unfortunately not > land until after 0.49) which should get ICC into pretty good shape on > Linux and > Mac, including actually checking that arguments are understood (which > should > allow us to drop the prefix test from SWR). I have some ideas on how we > might > remove auto options, some of them can already use meson's "feature" > https://mesonbuild.com/Build-options.html#features option (which should > make > distro packagers happy too), for arch and OS specific options I have some > ideas > and I'll continue following up with those upstream. > > For those interested in llvm-config overriding, with meson out of git you > can > add a files like: > > $ cat ~/.local/share/meson/native/llvm-6.0 > [binaries] > llvm-conifg = '/usr/local/lib/llvm-6/bin/llvm-config' > > and invoke meson with: > meson builddir --native-file llvm-6.0 > > which will configure with the specified llvm-config, and remember the > llvm-config used on subsequent reconfigurations. You can override all > binaries > from a native file as well, so if you want to use a specific python3 or > compiler you can do that, and you can load multiple native files in a > single > invocation. > > Is there anything else we're missing in meson to be able to drop autotools? > Everything seems OK here. Marek
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