[glib: 5/13] docs: Update HACKING and README to mention Meson rather than autotools
- From: Philip Withnall <pwithnall src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [glib: 5/13] docs: Update HACKING and README to mention Meson rather than autotools
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 15:27:03 +0000 (UTC)
commit aaac7a166fba9e0cdcc3f2033a8e1ce1c7a0ed59
Author: Philip Withnall <withnall endlessm com>
Date: Wed Jan 9 11:40:29 2019 +0000
docs: Update HACKING and README to mention Meson rather than autotools
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall endlessm com>
HACKING | 26 +++-----------------------
README.win32 | 2 +-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 7c130ab40..330635086 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -1,37 +1,17 @@
If you want to hack on the GLib project, you'll need to have the
following packages installed:
- - GNU autoconf 2.62
- - GNU automake 1.11
- - GNU libtool 2.2
+ - Meson 0.48.0
- GNU gettext 0.10.40
- pkg-config 0.16
- gtk-doc
- libffi 3.0.0
-These should be available by ftp from ftp.gnu.org or any of the
-fine GNU mirrors. Beta software can be found at alpha.gnu.org.
-
-To compile a GIT version of glib on your system, you will need to take
+To compile a Git version of glib on your system, you will need to take
several steps to setup the tree for compilation. You can do all these
steps at once by running:
- checkout/glib# ./autogen.sh
-
-Basically this does the following for you:
-
- checkout/glib# aclocal; automake; autoconf
-
- The above commands create the "configure" script. Now you
- can run the configure script in checkout/glib to create all
- the Makefiles.
-
-Before running autogen.sh or configure, make sure you have libtool
-in your path.
-
-Note that autogen.sh runs configure for you. If you wish to pass
-options like --prefix=/usr to configure you can give those options
-to autogen.sh and they will be passed on to configure.
+ checkout/glib# meson _build
For information about submitting patches see the CONTRIBUTING.md file. For
information about major design decisions, see the README.rationale file.
diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32
index e6f8ef737..6933e6690 100644
--- a/README.win32
+++ b/README.win32
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Note that to just *use* GLib on Windows, there is no need to build it
yourself.
On Windows setting up a correct build environment can be quite a task,
-especially if you are used to just type "./configure; make" on Linux,
+especially if you are used to just typing `meson; ninja` on Linux,
and expect things to work as smoothly on Windows.
The following preprocessor macros are to be used for conditional
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