From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F9E1C433DF for ; Fri, 19 Jun 2020 14:13:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 359C020776 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 2020 14:13:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726124AbgFSONO (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jun 2020 10:13:14 -0400 Received: from bhuna.collabora.co.uk ([46.235.227.227]:59474 "EHLO bhuna.collabora.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725974AbgFSONO (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jun 2020 10:13:14 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (Authenticated sender: ezequiel) with ESMTPSA id D536C2A3738 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] Add support for meson building From: Ezequiel Garcia To: kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com, Ariel D'Alessandro , linux-media@vger.kernel.org Cc: hverkuil@xs4all.nl, sean@mess.org, p.zabel@pengutronix.de, laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com, nicolas@ndufresne.ca, gjasny@googlemail.com, nicolas Dufresne , Xavier Claessens Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 11:12:58 -0300 In-Reply-To: References: <20200618133303.28676-1-ariel@vanguardiasur.com.ar> <20200618133303.28676-2-ariel@vanguardiasur.com.ar> Organization: Collabora Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" User-Agent: Evolution 3.36.0-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-media@vger.kernel.org +Xavier, Nicolas On Thu, 2020-06-18 at 14:57 +0100, Kieran Bingham wrote: > Hi Ariel, > > Wow there's a lot of work there! That must have taken quite some effort > between you and Ezequiel! > (: I don't remember having done much, so all kudos must go to Ariel. > I've looked through, and about the only thing that stands out to me is > the way you're joining strings. > > Meson provides a join_paths() function specifically for that. > Now we're "probably" not going to build this library on anything other > than linux, but I think the function still has merit over the arbitrary > strings which I mis-interpreted for 'divide' at first glance :S > > Other than that, I expect we will have to run both build systems in > parallel for some time to allow packaging and other builders to adapt. > That might mean it's a bit more difficult to make sure both build > systems are updated when adding new files or changing the build in anyway. > Why? Is it too naive to expect that's it's safe to just turn the flip on meson, and remove autotools? Everyone doing packaging is already aware and used to meson. Thanks! Ezequiel