(Forgot to X-Debugs-CC Helmut and Jussi)
Niels Thykier:
> Package: debhelper
> Version: 12.5.4
> Severity: important
>
> Hi,
>
> I think it is time for a reboot of #919117, comment #20 if we want this for
> bullseye:
>
> """
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 12:42 AM Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de> wrote:
>
>> I think this discrepancy is a design bug in Meson. Meson should either
>> use environment variables or not. For native compilation, you can simply
>> use a native file. Artificially handling things differently just makes
>> cross compilation unnecessarily hard.
>
> Using only native and cross files is exactly the thing that we want to
> do and are working towards. Sadly it is likely that we will never be
> able to get rid of the envvar support. For all the gory details see
> for example:
>
> https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/4664
> """
>
> AFAICT, it would just be a question of doing:
>
> """
> /usr/share/meson/debcrossgen -a"$DEB_BUILD_ARCH"
> -o"$DIR/meson-native-file.conf"
> /usr/share/meson/debcrossgen -a"$DEB_HOST_ARCH" -o"$DIR/meson-cross-file.conf"
> meson --native-file "$DIR/meson-native-file.conf" --cross-file
> "$DIR/meson-cross-file.conf" ...
> """
>
> OR does it need a special case for cross-building vs. native?
>
> """
> /usr/share/meson/debcrossgen -a"$DEB_BUILD_ARCH"
> -o"$DIR/meson-native-file.conf"
> if (is_cross_compiling()) {
> /usr/share/meson/debcrossgen -a"$DEB_HOST_ARCH"
> -o"$DIR/meson-cross-file.conf"
> meson --native-file "$DIR/meson-native-file.conf" --cross-file
> "$DIR/meson-cross-file.conf" ...
> } else {
> meson --native-file "$DIR/meson-native-file.conf" ...
> }
> """
>
> @Helmut, @Jussi:
>
> * Do we agree on the above approach?
>
> * Do you see any issues with this approach?
>
> AFAIUI, the advantage is that we will use the same code path for
> native and cross-building plus the meson upstream prefer this approach
> over status-quo.
>
> Thanks,
> ~Niels
>
