From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51512) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1mhG-0008Mt-Jo for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 01:40:03 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1mhA-0000oj-RH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 01:39:58 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:40612) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1mh8-0000nU-Fz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 01:39:55 -0500 References: <3246431b-8d6e-f2bc-e0f0-99d80384d97b@redhat.com> From: Thomas Huth Message-ID: <9fb589af-a78e-6eeb-ca1c-a5049c5ac5ab@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 07:39:46 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3246431b-8d6e-f2bc-e0f0-99d80384d97b@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] converting build system to Meson? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini , qemu-devel Cc: Peter Maydell , =?UTF-8?Q?Marc-Andr=c3=a9_Lureau?= , Richard Henderson On 06/03/2019 19.12, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > lately I have been thinking of converting the QEMU build system to > Meson. Meson is a relatively new build system that can replace > Autotools or hand-written Makefiles such as QEMU; as a die-hard > Autotools fan, I must say that Meson is by far better than anything els= e > that has ever tried to replace Autotools, and actually has the potentia= l > to do so. >=20 > Advantages of Meson that directly matter for QEMU include:[...] I'm not objecting a new build system per se, but could you elaborate on problems of the current QEMU build system that will be fixed by this change? Since apart from some minor glitches (with the *.mak file dependencies for example), the current build system seems to work quite well for me ... so at least I currently don't feel enough pain yet to do such a big step, just because there is another new cool build system around... Just my 0.02 =E2=82=AC, of course. Thomas PS: I just saw https://mesonbuild.com/Dependencies.html#cmake ... that's a funny idea :-)