For people building newer Mesa pip3 install --user meson is quite a lot better and more accessible. Not a solutions for distributions that want to backport newer Mesa etc though.
Those build dependencies look more like runtime dependencies btw, Meson is just pure python right? Regards //Ernst Den tis 9 apr. 2019 kl 13:00 skrev Eero Tamminen <eero.t.tammi...@intel.com>: > > Hi, > > On 9.4.2019 0.22, Dylan Baker wrote: > > It would be nice if people wouldn't try to build bleeding edge mesa on a 12 > > year > > old distro :D. Unfortunately as Eero ppoints out they do. I'd like to bump > > the > > meson version to 0.47 in the future for some of the other features it adds > > (automatically figuring out the dependencies for pkg-config, feature > > options, > > etc), but that'll have to wait a bit for distros to catch up. > > Currently at least Meson 0.45 is required, which I think to rule out any > 12 year old distros :D. Requiring Meson 0.47 would rule out 2 year old > distro releases. > > If somebody can test latest stable distros to see they work if one just > takes newer Meson binary package from newer version of the distro, maybe > Mesa could add instruction for users to do that? > > In Ubuntu 18.04 those instructions would be: > - replace "bionic" in /etc/apt/sources.list temporarily with "cosmic" > - do "sudo apt update && sudo apt install meson" > - revert /etc/apt/sources.list back to bionic > > In Debian stable/stretch (which has Meson v0.37): > - enable "stretch-backports" repo to install Meson (v0.49) > > > - Eero > > PS. reason why I say Meson binary packages from newer distro version > need to work is that I think expecting users to build also new Meson > version from source is not realistic as it seems to need huge amount > of esoteric build dependencies: > https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/cosmic/meson > > > We've actually talked about removing these deprecation warnings in cases > > where > > the minimum version doesn't have the recommended replacement, but that's > > hard. > > > > Dylan > > > > Quoting Eero Tamminen (2019-04-08 04:16:49) > >> Hi, > >> > >> On 6.4.2019 11.44, Khaled Emara wrote: > >>> Sorry, I though LTS distros used old versions of mesa. > >>> Got it. > >> > >> Those *provide* older Mesa version, so naturally people want to build > >> latest Mesa on them (especially if they've just bought HW that isn't > >> supported by distro version of Mesa). Building would fail if Mesa would > >> require newer Meson version than the one in the distro. > >> > >> > >> - Eero > >> > >> PS. On Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, one can install 0.47 Meson binary package > >> from 18.10, it works fine. Maybe something similar can be done also > >> on other LTS distros. > >> > >>> On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 12:38 AM Dylan Baker <dy...@pnwbakers.com > >>> <mailto:dy...@pnwbakers.com>> wrote: > >>> > >>> Quoting Khaled Emara (2019-04-05 11:28:28) > >>> > Upgraded meson's minimum version from 0.45 to 0.47 > >>> > Version 0.47 is required to use build_always_stale > >>> > --- > >>> > meson.build | 2 +- > >>> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > >>> > > >>> > diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build > >>> > index 2c98e9e18a9..454928e244a 100644 > >>> > --- a/meson.build > >>> > +++ b/meson.build > >>> > @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ project( > >>> > [find_program('python', 'python2', 'python3'), > >>> 'bin/meson_get_version.py'] > >>> > ).stdout(), > >>> > license : 'MIT', > >>> > - meson_version : '>= 0.45', > >>> > + meson_version : '>= 0.47', > >>> > default_options : ['buildtype=debugoptimized', > >>> 'b_ndebug=if-release', 'c_std=c99', 'cpp_std=c++11'] > >>> > ) > >>> > > >>> > -- > >>> > 2.21.0 > >>> > > >>> > _______________________________________________ > >>> > mesa-dev mailing list > >>> > mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org > >>> <mailto:mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org> > >>> > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev > >>> > >>> Unfortunately we can't bump the minimum version at the moment, there > >>> are a > >>> couple of LTS distros we need support for that only ship 0.45.x > >>> currently. As an > >>> upstream meson dev, we have no time table in place for the removal of > >>> build_always. > >>> > >>> Dylan > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
