On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 02:11:28PM -0800, Matt Turner wrote: > From: Gert Wollny <gw.foss...@gmail.com> > > Since Meson will eventually be the only build system deprecate autotools > now. It can still be used by invoking configure with the flag > --enable-autotools > > NAKed-by: Ilia Mirkin <imir...@alum.mit.edu> > Acked-by: Eric Engestrom <eric.engest...@intel.com> > Acked-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenn...@whitecape.org> > Acked-by: Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwer...@intel.com> > Acked-by: Jason Ekstrand <ja...@jlekstrand.net> > Acked-by: Rob Clark <robdcl...@gmail.com> > Acked-by: Marek Ol????k <marek.ol...@amd.com> > Reviewed-by: Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmei...@gmail.com> > Reviewed-by: Matt Turner <matts...@gmail.com> > Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <e...@anholt.net> > Signed-off-by: Gert Wollny <gw.foss...@gmail.com> > --- > I think there's support for overriding the sole objection to this patch. > > To confirm: > > (1) The plan is to remove Autotools, perhaps after the 19.0 release > > (2) This patch's purpose is to ensure that everyone knows that > Autotools will be going away (think: people who build Mesa as > part of an automated process and wouldn't notice a deprecation > warning unless it requires some action from them) > > (3) We expect all reasonable concerns about Meson to be resolved > before Autotools is removed (e.g., reconfiguration problems, > retrieving configuration command line, configuration status > output, etc.)
As we can not depend on python to build Mesa in OpenBSD I will have to go back to maintaining a local Mesa build system if autotools is removed. If you are looking for feedback from distributions you should also mention this on the mesa-maintainers list. > > configure.ac | 13 +++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac > index e4d20054d5f..c7473d77eff 100644 > --- a/configure.ac > +++ b/configure.ac > @@ -52,6 +52,19 @@ mingw*) > ;; > esac > > +AC_ARG_ENABLE(autotools, > + [AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-autotools], > + [Enable the use of this autotools based build > configuration])], > + [enable_autotools=$enableval], [enable_autotools=no]) > + > +if test "x$enable_autotools" != "xyes" ; then > + AC_MSG_ERROR([the autotools build system has been deprecated in favour of > + meson and will be removed eventually. For instructions on how to use > meson > + see https://www.mesa3d.org/meson.html. > + If you still want to use the autotools build, then add --enable-autotools > + to the configure command line.]) > +fi > + > # Support silent build rules, requires at least automake-1.11. Disable > # by either passing --disable-silent-rules to configure or passing V=1 > # to make > -- > 2.19.2 > > _______________________________________________ > mesa-dev mailing list > mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
