Re: [libvirt PATCH 000/351] port libvirt to Meson build system

On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 11:53:56AM +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote: > So I was finally able to produce the patches to port libvirt to Meson. > Obviously, it is a lot of changes. It might look that some of the > patches could be squashed together but I would rather have it as > separated as possible to make the review not that difficult. > > Once we are done with review I suggest to squash all patches to single > patch as it doesn't make sense to keep them separated as it will not be > possible to build complete libvirt code by any of the build systems. > Trying to achieve that would be even more challenging and the review > would me more difficult. > > The reasoning behind taking this approach is to have 1:1 conversion from > autotools to Meson where each patch removes that part from autotools. It > serves as a check that nothing is skipped and to make sure that the > conversion is complete. > > As probably most of us know Meson is completely different build system > and one of the most challenging things was to deal with the fact that > meson doesn't allow user functions and that everything has to be defined > before it is used. > > Patches are available in my Gitlab repo as well: > > git clone -b meson https://gitlab.com/phrdina/libvirt.git > > and link to Giltab pipeline: > > https://gitlab.com/phrdina/libvirt/-/pipelines/167276632 FWIW, some unit tests fail for me - Fedora 31, with pip installed meson 0.55 11/154 check-virnetprotocol FAIL 0.09s (exit status 1)