Re: RFC: Build system change

[Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>]

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"Christopher J. PeBenito" <pebenito@ieee.org> writes:

> Back when refpolicy started, every system carried the policy sources
> and built its own policy locally. Given that world, *make* was the
> obvious choice — ubiquitous, lightweight, and well understood. The
> downside is a set of Makefiles that’s hard to read and even harder to
> maintain.
>
> Fast‑forward to today, and no one is building full policies on‑device
> anymore. Outside of a few local modules, the main policy is built by
> the distro. With that in mind, I’d like to move the main policy build
> to a modern system (the headers‑based builds would stay on make).
>
> I’ve been experimenting with *meson/ninja*, and so far the results
> look good. I’d appreciate feedback on two points:
>
> 1.
>
>    *Concerns about making this change*


We'd lose the ability to quickly run make for a single policy being
developed before it moves into proper packaging, I think, but we could
keep simple Makefiles around for that case.

>
> 2.
>
>    *Which build system we should adopt (I'm definitely not attached to
>    meson)*

Meson is usually the nicest to deal with as a distribution maintainer.

I'm also a Meson contributor. I think Rahul was interested in adding
SELinux policy support natively into Meson too.

sam

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