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

[Dave Reisner]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 09:56:04AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 22/10/18 8:57 am, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> >> 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...
> 
> That is another good reason not to use git archive to create release
> tarballs.
> 
> A

Consider that the reason we need 'make dist' and can't just use 'git
archive' is because autotools *requires* extra tooling around just to
generate the build system. This is no longer needed with meson.

Pre-generating the manpages means that our substitutions are
invalidated. For example, someone building from the tarball with
--prefix=/some/where/else or no --prefix at all will have a
pacman.conf(5) that still claims the right path is /etc/pacman.conf

I understand your point about python2 vs python3, but I think that's
something we can work out based on a python3-based asciidoc in
existance.

What problems here would you like to see solved for the inclusion of
meson? That will help me focus my time spent on this.

dR