gtk-doc and meson [Re: meson version for GNOME 3.26]

[Michael Biebl <mbiebl gmail com>]

With Meson gaining more traction in GNOME I guess it's about time to
improve gtk-doc's support for out-of-tree builds.
At least people should be aware of issues like
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776427
when porting to Meson. Out-of-tree builds are rarely tested for
gtk-doc and there can be subtle breakages like missing images, code
samples etc.



2017-03-18 17:41 GMT+01:00 Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org>:
> Hi,
>
> For GNOME 3.26, the maximum required version of meson will be meson
> 0.39.1 (matching what will be in Ubuntu 17.04). If you remove Autotools
> support from your module in favor of meson, you must ensure that it
> builds properly with this version of meson. (If you have added a meson
> build but retain Autotools support, then you can require whatever
> version of meson you want.)
>
> Reminder: for GNOME 3.24 the maximum required version of meson is
> 0.34.0.
>
> Ideally, we would build meson in JHBuild itself and ignore the version
> of meson installed on the system, freeing ourselves from this version
> requirement. It requires a volunteer to teach JHBuild to understand
> that <meson> tags in the moduleset definitions mean it has to build the
> meson module. Currently JHBuild understands it to mean that it requires
> the meson package to be installed on the system, and code changes are
> required to alter this.
>
> Michael
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