Russ Allbery wrote: > Yes, perhaps it's time to switch to a different build system, although one > of the reasons I've personally been putting this off is that I do a lot of > feature probing for library APIs that have changed over time, and I'm not > sure how one does that in the non-Autoconf build systems. Meson's Porting > from Autotools [1] page, for example, doesn't seem to address this use > case at all. > > [1] https://mesonbuild.com/Porting-from-autotools.html
Have a look at the documentation for the meson "compiler" object [1]. There is a lot of functionality in meson that has analogs in autoconf that isn't described in the "Porting from Autotools" document. [1] https://mesonbuild.com/Reference-manual_returned_compiler.html -- Robert Edmonds edmo...@debian.org
