On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:23:03AM -0700, Matt Turner wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 8:51 AM Daniel Vetter <dan...@ffwll.ch> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 02:54:52PM -0700, Matt Turner wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 6:28 AM, Petri Latvala <petri.latv...@intel.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > A new intel-gpu-tools quarterly release is available with the > > > > following changes: > > > > > > > > > > Since the Meson build system has no configuration options it's not yet > > > a replacement distros can use. Please ship the 1.23 tarball with the > > > autotools files generated by make dist. > > > > Meson upstream seems to think that autoconfiguring with defaults Is Better > > (tm). What would distro's want from the meson build (since I think it's > > useful to cut down a bit from the all the options, mostly they didn't > > really work after a short while anyway)? > > That works fine for developers building it out of their ~/projects > directory, but not so well for distros. Source distros in particular > don't work well with so-called "automagic" dependencies, i.e., those > that are enabled if detected by the configure script without the > ability to explicitly disable them. > > Gentoo's dependency tracking works by saying "Depend on package XYZ > iff support for XYZ is requested". Automagic deps break this by > assumption by linking with XYZ if it happens to be installed even if > support isn't requested. > > If we just want to make everything required, then... I guess that will > work. But because autotools already has configuration support, the > source code is already ready. FWIW, this came to my attention recently > because I worked with the Chrome team at Intel to add v1.22 to Gentoo. > I suggested switching to Meson and then realized it wasn't > configurable at all.
Let me rephrase my questions: Which specific options do distros want? All of the ones we have as optional dependencies already, or just a specific subset, or something else? In the past we had options like "only build the tools" because someone asked for that, and that also doens't exist anymore iirc. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
