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

[Eli Schwartz]

On 10/21/18 6:26 PM, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 22/10/18 8:12 am, 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 think providing prebuilt man pages is more important now we require
> python3 for testing given asciidoc requires python2.

Maybe by the time we fully commit to meson, this will be ready for
public release: https://github.com/asciidoc/asciidoc-py3

In fact, currently, Fedora uses it -- though via some sort of
nonexistent tag or something. :/

> Also, most projects ship prebuilt man pages. I think some GNU ones
> commit the built page to the tree, so that could be an option.

Both those things are also true about the configure and Makefile.in files...

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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