Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] Switch build system to meson

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

Hi Mauro,

On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 08:15:43AM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On 9/12/22 23:29, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 04:41:33PM +0200, Gregor Jasny wrote:
> >> Hello Laurent and all the other helping hands,
> >>
> >> On 9/9/22 3:44 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> >>> This series is the latest (and greatest) attempt to switch v4l-utils
> >>> from autotools to meson.
> >>>
> >>> Compared to v6, the first noticeable change is that fixups have been
> >>> squashed into their corresponding commit. Detailed changelogs are now
> >>> included in individual patches.
> >>
> >> Tested-by: Gregor Jasny <gjasny@googlemail.com>
> >>
> >> v7 is still working as expected with my Debian and Ubuntu packaging scripts.
> > 
> > Thanks for testing. I'll post a v8 with the improvements suggested in
> > the review comments. I will also include updates to the
> > v4l-utils.spec.in file, and would appreciate help testing it.
> > 
> >> What would you think would be a good time to release these changes?
> >> Should I do a release shortly after the this change has landed?
> > 
> > I think that would be a good idea. Once v8 is out, if there are no more
> > issues, I think it could be merged.
> 
> Two questions: for meson, what is the equivalent to 'make distclean'? 
> Just rm -rf build?

That's correct. Meson doesn't make *any* change to the source directory.

> And another: if I enable building for v4l2-ctl-32 and 
> v4l2-compliance-32, then those targets aren't build AFAICS.

I'll check that (a bit busy this week with ELC and LPC).

> It's needed for testing 32-bit compat code.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart