Re: Build system considerations

[Keith Packard]

David Turner <address@hidden> writes:

> for ten different Unix-like system is a portability nightmare.
> On the other hand, building them for a standard Linux distribution, or OS
> X, is a well known problem, so we may consider keeping autotools/libtool as
> an escape hatch for esoteric systems that still exist, and use something
> simpler/better for Linux and OS X?

Mesa has two build systems currently (meson and scons). It's a struggle
keeping them in sync as the scons system is used by only a few
developers. Not ideal, but it can work if people using the minority
build system accept that it's up to them to keep it running.

-- 
-keith

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