[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/3] Add support for Meson build

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 11-10-17 05:51, Andrey Yurovsky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 6:06 AM, Romain Naour <romain.naour at smile.fr> wrote:
>> Thomas, Andrey, All,
>>
>> Le 07/10/2017 à 13:58, Thomas Petazzoni a écrit :
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 15:39:03 -0700, Andrey Yurovsky wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 7:50 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
>>>> <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
>>>>> No, let's wait to have a few Meson-based packages in Buildroot, and
>>>>> then we'll have a package infrastructure. This will allow us to see
>>>>> what are the commonalities, what are the differences, etc.
>>>>
>>>> systemd 235 is released (https://lwn.net/Articles/735691/) and it
>>>> drops autoconf/automake and only has meson as the build system (in 234
>>>> they warned this would happen next) so perhaps that's a good starting
>>>> point for buildroot to integrate meson support? I'm happy to help out
>>>> if no one else was already working on it.
>>>
>>> This would indeed be a very compelling reason to support meson.
>>
>> Also the next enlightenment release (0.22) will only support meson.
>>
> 
> I was able to add a package/pkg-meson.mk wrapper (that seems to be
> missing from the Meson patch set, or did I completely miss it?) and

 Yes, our original idea was that there should be a few packages using meson
before we add an infra for it. But since there are quite a few packages that
will use the meson infra, and since it seems pretty straightforward, it can
indeed be done right away (at least according to me, Thomas may have a different
opinion).

> built the previously submitted libmpdclient version bump via the
> $(eval $(meson-package)) wrapper. I'll work on version bumping systemd
> and converting it to use that wrapper as well. If possible I'd like to
> get this more or less right, what would a reasonable patch set look
> like? I was thinking, as a patch set:
> 1. resubmit the Meson patches (package/meson, documentation) by Jörg Krause

 If you're anyway adding pkg-meson.mk, then the documentation doesn't make much
sense (in that form). Better do it after pkg-meson.mk.

> 2. add package/pkg-meson.mk
> 3. resubmit the libmpdclient version bump patch by Jörg Krause but
> with $(eval $(meson-package)) changes
> 4. submit the systemd version bump and meson conversion patch(es)
> 
> That way we have the infrastructure, documentation, and two packages
> utilizing the infrastructure in one set to review. Does that sound
> alright?

 Yes it does!

 Regards,
 Arnout

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