Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/7] configure: integrate Meson in the build system

[Gerd Hoffmann]

 Hi,

> Ok, I can understand that. I've been thinking about how we can switch
> libvirt to use meson too, and trying to decide between meson being the
> owner, calling out to make  vs keeping make as the owner and calling
> out to meson. Ultimately to entirely banish make, autoconf, automake,
> libtool, m4 & shell from our build system :-)
> 
> Despite thinking about an incremental conversion though, I was still
> hoping libvirt would just have a single (largish) patch series to
> do a complete conversion at a specific point in time.

Another possible approach would be to have two build systems.
The traditional configure & make and the new meson & ninja.

Advantage is we don't have to worry about the transition and mixing &
make + meson at all.

Disadvantage is the duplication.  That wouldn't be forever though.
I'd expect we'll have one or maybe two releases with both build systems,
then delete the make & configure.

cheers,
  Gerd