Re: Meson support in oe-core

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, 2017-08-07 at 15:19 +0300, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On 08/07/2017 03:09 PM, Jussi Kukkonen wrote:
> Looks like 2017 is when autotools is finally being replaced en masse
> by 
> various projects, particularly those related to gnome stack. Even 
> relatively large projects like gstreamer are going forward with it.
> The 
> replacement is meson, whose advantages over autotools are major, and 
> disadvantages are minor:
> http://mesonbuild.com/
> 
> Ross and I have done some work on bringing meson support into oe-
> core. 
> One recipe has been fully migrated to meson (including tricker bits
> like
> gtkdoc, and gobject introspection). Going forward that will be the 
> default when a project has both that and autotools, and of course we 
> should be ready for the situation when autotools support is removed
> from 
> the upstream altogether.
> 
> http://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded-contrib/log/?h=akanavin
> /meson
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=akanavi
> n/meson

Thanks for looking at this. Whilst some project still have some support
for both, could we get timings of do_{configure|compile|install} for
autotools vs. meson?

Cheers,

Richard