[pacman-dev] interest in using meson over autotools?

Eli Schwartz eschwartz at archlinux.org
Sun Jul 8 03:08:15 UTC 2018


On 07/07/2018 07:13 PM, Dave Reisner wrote:
> Would there be interest in accepting patches to make these changes? I
> propose we would carry both build systems in parallel for a major
> release before eventually dropping autotools.

I want this and have suggested it recently on IRC. I think Allan may
have suggested there were some gotchas for building statically?

That's something I'd like to keep, mainly so
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pacman-static continues to be a valid
recovery option for people with borked systems.

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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