[gimp] INSTALL, NEWS: the macOS build is now officially using meson too.
- From: Jehan <jehanp src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gimp] INSTALL, NEWS: the macOS build is now officially using meson too.
- Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 13:06:53 +0000 (UTC)
commit 1ccdf467fb91639963a05f16469c173078e6f167
Author: Jehan <jehan girinstud io>
Date: Sun Apr 17 15:04:44 2022 +0200
INSTALL, NEWS: the macOS build is now officially using meson too.
See MR gimp-macos-build!97.
INSTALL.in | 19 ++++++++++---------
NEWS | 5 +++--
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/INSTALL.in b/INSTALL.in
index df98ce667e..5e32bb2c0e 100644
--- a/INSTALL.in
+++ b/INSTALL.in
@@ -204,11 +204,12 @@ header files installed.
17. Configure GIMP by running the `configure' script. You may want
to pass some options to it, see below.
- Note that for Windows, we now recommend officially to build GIMP
- with `meson` instead of `autotools` (`configure` script, make,
- etc.). Therefore further build instructions below must be converted
- as their meson command equivalents. On all other platforms, the
- autotools are still recommended and more complete.
+
+ Note that for Windows and macOS, we now recommend officially to
+ build GIMP with `meson` instead of `autotools` (`configure` script,
+ make, etc.). Therefore further build instructions below must be
+ converted as their meson command equivalents. On all other
+ platforms, the autotools are still recommended and more complete.
18. Build GIMP by running `make'. The use of GNU make is recommended.
If you need to tweak the build to make it work with other flavours
@@ -301,10 +302,10 @@ compilation and installation output is not shown.
Note: if building from repository (not tarballs), you may notice a meson
build system is also available in the repository. It is not the main
-build system and is not recommended for stable packages as it still has
-several known issues, including build flag errors leading to crashes and
-missing features.
-We only invite contributors to use the meson build if they wish to help
+build system and is not recommended for stable packages other than on
+macOS and Windows, as it still has several known issues, including
+missing or broken features.
+Yet we invite contributors to use the meson build if they wish to help
with debugging.
The `configure' script examines your system, and adapts GIMP to run on
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d0842be739..036b0d5cc7 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -140,8 +140,9 @@ Build:
- Flatpak manifest upgraded with new version constraints so that the
flatpak-external-data-checker does not warn wrongly on major update
when we don't want to or can't update immediately.
- - meson is now recommended for Windows builds and our official
- installer is now built (still from CI) with meson.
+ - meson is now recommended for Windows and macOS builds and our
+ official installer and DMG respectively are now built (still from
+ CI) with meson.
- Flatpak manifest improved with version constraints for dependencies
where we should not update just yet (hence don't want new version
notifications).
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