Re: ***UNCHECKED*** Meson and Autotools, or only Meson?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2020-03-25 at 18:49 +0100, Kjell Ahlstedt via gtkmm-list wrote:
> These *mm packages can now be built either with Meson or with
> Autotools:
>
> mm-common
> libsigc++-2.0, libsigc++-3.0
> glibmm-2.4, glibmm-2.66
> pangomm-1.4, pangomm-2.44
> (gtkmm-documentation-3,) gtkmm-documentation-4
> I've put gtkmm-documentation-3 in parentheses because there is no
> released tarball with Meson support, it's only in the git repo.
>
> Some underlying C packages, such as glib and gtk4, have dropped
> Autotools support. Shall we do the same, where possible?
>
> I think at least one released tarball must contain both Meson support
> and Autotools support before Autotools support can be dropped, or
> else https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/ will have
> problems. Correct me, if I'm wrong here.
>
> At the moment all of the listed packages use Meson when they are
> built with jhbuild, but only mm-common does so when it's built with
> gnome-build-meta.
>
> Regards
> Kjell

I don't have enough experience with Meson to give a real opinion. So do
please do what you think makes things easier for people working on the
code. Thanks for pursuing this.

Where would I go to find basic instructions for using Meson with gtkmm
and co. For instance, how would I build with or without our strict
warnings as errors?


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