Re: Meson and Autotools, or only Meson?
Kjell Ahlstedt via gtkmm-list <[email protected]>
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On 2020-03-26 11:01, Murray Cumming wrote: > On Thu, 2020-03-26 at 09:42 +0100, Kjell Ahlstedt wrote: >> warnings=fatal is the default. I >> have tried to make the "warnings" option equal to the Autotools >> equivalent, except that "fatal" is the default. > I wonder if that's wise. It will lead to unnecessary build breakage, > for instance for packagers, when they upgrade compilers or > dependencies. If this remains the default, we might need to give people > obvious instructions about how to build more forgivingly. I have changed the default warning level to /min/, except when a tarball is created and tested. (/ninja dist/ corresponds to /make distcheck/.) That's how autotools builds work. > >> Gtkmm itself can't be built with Meson yet. That's several months >> ahead, I think. > You might consider, if you like, not removing autotools from the other > builds until gtkmm uses Meson, if you remove autotools. That would be a > simpler story. > > Other comments have made me believe that we ought to keep the autotools support until most common distros contain mm-common 1.0.0 or higher. (Building with meson in maintainer mode requires mm-common >= 1.0.0.) _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list