Re: [Tracker] Meson build instructions for Tracker

[Sam Thursfield <ssssam gmail com>]

On 3/30/17, Sam Thursfield <ssssam gmail com> wrote:
>       * There's no `make dist` equivalent. We can use `git archive` to
>         produce tarballs, but these won't have the .c files generated by
>         valac. That said, shipping the generated .c files does make the
>         Vala preprocessor useless so it would be good if we can stop,
>         but that could break things for downstreams unexpectedly.

Meson 0.41 is going to gain a `dist` target. It won't allow us to
carry on shipping pregenerated Vala code, but looks useful:

> Creating distribution tarballs is simple:
>
> ninja dist
>
> This will create a .tar.xz archive of the source code including submodules without any revision
> control information. This command also verifies that the resulting archive can be built, tested
> and installed. This is roughly equivalent to the distcheck target in other build systems. Currently
> this only works for projects using Git and only with the Ninja backend.

> From http://mesonbuild.com/Release-notes-for-0-41-0.html

Sam