Re: [Tracker] Meson build instructions for Tracker

[Sam Thursfield <ssssam gmail com>]

On 3/30/17, Michael Biebl <mbiebl gmail com> wrote:
> 2017-03-30 23:54 GMT+02:00 Sam Thursfield <ssssam gmail com>:
> > I've been working on build instructions for Tracker using Meson.
> > They are now pretty much ready for use!
>
> Nice work!

Thanks Michael!

> > Then you do something like this:
> >
> >     mkdir build
> >     cd build
> >     meson ..
> >     ninja-build
>
> Hm, did you mean "ninja" here?

Ah yes, on Red Hat/Fedora it's renamed to `ninja-build`, but on Debian
it's just `ninja`.

> As one of your downstreams (Debian), I wouldn't have a problem of not
> shipping pre-generated files (for gtk-doc and valac).
>
> So a git archive tarball would be fine with me.

That's good to know! We did wonder if regenerating the .c files each
build would have implications for reproducible-builds, but I guess if
there are issues there it's better to fix them now than ignore them.

Sam