[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add meson.build files to build with meson

Eli Schwartz eschwartz at archlinux.org
Sun Oct 21 22:20:53 UTC 2018


On 10/21/18 6:12 PM, Dave Reisner wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 07:54:57AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
>> On 22/10/18 7:46 am, Dave Reisner wrote:
>>> 3) No 'make dist' equivalent. Just run 'git archive' to generate a
>>> suitable tarball for distribution.
>>
>> Is there a way to include pregenerated man pages with git archive?
>>
>> A
> 
> No, git archive only considers what's in the git tree. Is there a reason
> we're determined to pre-generate the manpages instead of just adding
> makedepends on ascididoc?

I've got a better question, shouldn't we explicitly want to generate
them at build time? The output depends on buildtime options -- it uses
pkgdatadir, localstatedir, sysconfdir, datarootdir to redefine paths in
the manpages.

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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