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

[Eric Le Bihan <eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr>]

Hi all!

On 17-10-10 20:51:55, Andrey Yurovsky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 6:06 AM, Romain Naour <romain.naour@smile.fr> wrote:
> > Thomas, Andrey, All,
> >
> > Le 07/10/2017 ? 13:58, Thomas Petazzoni a ?crit :
> >> 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@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
> 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 J?rg Krause

I resubmitted the series, with a version bump to 0.43.0 and other
suggested changes.

@J?rg: in your respin of the series, why was the github helper dropped
in favor of a direct tarball download?

> 2. add package/pkg-meson.mk
> 3. resubmit the libmpdclient version bump patch by J?rg 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?

@Andrey: I'll be happy to test your patches.

Regards,

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