On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > 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.
maybe mesonconf without argument ? See http://mesonbuild.com/Build-options.html at the bottom Vincent > >> >> 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
