[libvirt] [dbus PATCH v2] build: convert to Meson/Ninja build system

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 11:36:53AM +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 10:14:00AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 11:03:42AM +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
> > > Meson build system is simple and quick compared to Autotools and it's
> > > able to fully replace our Autotools usage.  There are few drawbacks as
> > > it's a fairly new build system, it requires Python 3.5 and Ninja 1.5.0,
> > > it's still evolving and the user base is not that large and there were
> > > some tweaks required to achieve the same functionality.
> > > 
> > > However, there are benefits, the configure and build time is way shorter
> > > and build definition files are more readable and easier to maintain.
> > > 
> > > There are some major changes with Meson build system:
> > > 
> > >     - there is no syntax-check target, the syntax-check is part of Meson
> > >       test suite but it's still possible to run it separately,
> > > 
> > >     - Meson forces separation between source and build directories
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina at redhat.com>
> > > Tested-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko at redhat.com>


> > > @@ -35,11 +36,11 @@ This package provides D-Bus API for libvirt
> > >  %autosetup
> > >  
> > >  %build
> > > -%configure
> > > -%make_build
> > > +%meson
> > > +%meson_build
> > >  
> > >  %install
> > > -%make_install
> > > +%meson_install
> > >  
> > >  %pre
> > >  getent group %{system_user} >/dev/null || groupadd -r %{system_user}
> > 
> > Should this add a '%check' section to run '%meson_test' as sanity
> > check for the build.
> 
> I would rather do it as a followup patch where we wound have to add
> more build dependencies into our spec file (python3, python3-pytest,
> python3-dbus and python3-flake8).

Sure, fine with me.


Regards,
Daniel
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