On Sun, 3 Sep 2017 16:16:39 +0930 Simon Lees <sfl...@suse.de> said: > > > On 02/09/17 23:55, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Sep 2017 12:53:05 +0930 Simon Lees <sfl...@suse.de> said: > > > >> > >> > >> On 02/09/17 10:51, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > >>> On Fri, 1 Sep 2017 20:38:59 +0200 marcel-hollerb...@t-online.de said: > >>> > >>>> On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 08:07:18PM +0200, Davide Andreoli wrote: > >>>>> 2017-09-01 19:50 GMT+02:00 Mike Blumenkrantz > >>>>> <michael.blumenkra...@gmail.com > >>>>>> : > >>>>> > >>>>>> It seems that the two build systems have fallen out of sync far faster > >>>>>> than I expected, and the autotools build is both no longer functional > >>>>>> and cannot provide a dist which is able to build using meson. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I'm not particularly interested in putting in even more work to try and > >>>>>> maintain something which is pending removal, so if anyone is super > >>>>>> interested in keeping it for the E22 release then patches are welcome, > >>>>>> otherwise I'll plan to remove autotools entirely next week before > >>>>>> starting the official release cycle. > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> +1 > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> +1 > >>>> > >>>> Just probebly checking if meson versions etc. fit the most distros, so > >>>> we dont leave users behind. > >>> > >>> i think then autogen.sh should do what rage does and do a meson build > >>> setup and fix appropriate INSTALL files etc. for how to build... > >>> > >>> but we also should get some decent testing across multiple OS's like > >>> freebsd, openbsd (i know netstar maintains these as running systems ! :)). > >>> to ensure at least on a lot of targets it builds right. package > >>> maintainers too would be really fantastic if they could switch and test > >>> there too in package build env's > >>> > >> > >> Speaking with a distro maintainers hat on, for this to be usable there > >> needs to be considerably more documentation, neither meson --help, > >> README or README.wayland tell me how to enable or disable building with > >> git. All that stuff simply should be there before you get distro's to > >> try it (or intend to remove autotools) otherwise your just wasting our > >> time. Equally the html documentation is not built automatically and > >> there is no indication of how one might build it. > > > > copying the above docs over and autogen.sh over would solve that. i can do > > it now if you want... but it's mean autogen is now meson not autofoo so > > autofoo build will effectively be disabled for most people. > > > > If meson --help listed the supported set of build flags that would be a > good starting point and likely good enough for me atleast but as of when > I wrote the email there was nothing which is annoying.
meson just can't do that. not until you set up a build. then it will list options. see the INSTALL file in rage. you will just have to cat meson_options.txt to get project specific options (beyond the std meson ones). this is how meson works. there is nothing we can do about it. --help doesnt work like autotools. > >> As a side note, git is also required for building (which wasn't the case > >> before). > > > > that is actually incorrect. git is required to create the dist tarball only. > > > > Git is required because if you try and do a build on a VM or chroot > without git installed meson will complain that git is not installed, > whether its used or not is another question but currently the e build > requires it. I'm not saying that its bad to need it its just another > change distro packagers should be aware of. well then its a build requires, but it's not USED. it doesnt need a git clone to do it. consider it then a build requirement OF meson. in fact it SHOULD be a depends of the meson package then and have nothing to do with us. :) > -- > > Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net > > Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek > SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 > GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
