[libvirt PATCH 000/351] port libvirt to Meson build system

[Ján Tomko]

On a Tuesday in 2020, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 10:00:20AM +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
>>     3) Keep the patches as they are but error out in meson until the
>>        conversion is complete. The error can be used to detect if git
>>        bisect is withing the meson rewrite.
>>
>>        Pros: - full history of changes where each commit removes the
>>                relevant bits from autotools
>>
>>              - git bisect is not broken if failed compilation is not an
>>                issue and marked as git bisect skip
>
>
>>
>>        Cons: - meson build will fail and there is no autogen.sh so no
>>                way how to compile libvirt even partially
>>
>>              - script used for git bisect will have to skip failed
>>                compilation with an option to check for specific error
>
>..So explicitly failing the meson build is a significant improvement.
>
>We could have
>
> - Meson build is forced to fail out of the box
> - An option "force_incomplete_build" to turn off the fail
> - When failing prints an error message
>
>       "This commit is part of the meson conversion and does not
>        build a complete libvirt. If bisecting, use "git bisect skip"
>        to continue, or "-Dforce_incomplete_build=true" to perform a
>        partial build"
>

For unattended bisects, it would be nice to return 125 which is the
magic value meaning 'skip' to 'git bisect run'.

Jano

>So with that we would have full history, and git bisect would be able
>to identify problems in ANY commit that is NOT part of the meson
>series, except the single commit that is immediately either side of
>the meson series. That should be viable I think.
>
>>     4) Rework the series to have patches adding meson bits without
>>        removing anything from autotools and drop the autotools files in
>>        a single commit once the meson rewrite is complete
>>
>>        Pros: - full history of changes
>>
>>              - git bisect not broken because autogen.sh && make will
>>                work the whole time until meson build && ninja is ready
>>
>>        Cons: - no reference of the meson changes to autotools code
>>
>>              - additional work for me to redo the patches
>
>
>Regards,
>Daniel
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