Re: [PATCH v2 4/8] metadata: test.sh: Add support for building out-of-tree
Andrea Cervesato via ltp <[email protected]>
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Hi Cyril, > Hi! > > I would say no, it's not worth of that trouble. I would either live without > > out-of-tree build or reevaluate what is blocking for switching to meson. > > (I don't remember what Andrea found in his POC some years ago.) > > I'm not 100% convinced that meson is the best way to go. It increases > the build dependecies quite a lot from a autotools+make to python with > several libraries. I understand your point of view, but meson doesn't have dependencies beside Python 3.10+ (pure python) and Ninja. So we would switch from make + autotools to python + ninja. Still, 2 tools. The only difference is that make + autotools is messy and legacy, while Meson is modern and well crafted. The project I worked on is easily adaptable in the current LTP version: https://github.com/acerv/ltp-core -- Andrea Cervesato SUSE QE Automation Engineer Linux andrea.cervesato-IBi9RG/[email protected] -- Mailing list info: https://lists.linux.it/listinfo/ltp