On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 11:24:02 AM CEST Igor Gnatenko wrote:
> Is this strictly %meson related? Could the generalizing be done
in
> `redhat-rpm-macros` within %meson_ namespace so we can avoid touching all
> packages?
Actually it's related for any buildsystem with supports (or even
requires out-of-tree building).
Hms, I'm not sure... Autotooled projects have VPATH builds (info
automake) usually optional, and it usually requires maintainer uses
`make distcheck` at least during release time (otherwise VPATH build
likely get broken with time). I don't see much benefits in changing
something which works now, or risk something..
> Though I'm not aware of the actual PoC, neither what
boilerplate typing
> needs to be done for every %meson package, probably worth sharing ...
mkdir build
pushd build
%meson ..
The '..' is parent dir here I bet...
popd
%ninja_build -C build
%ninja_install -C build
... TBH, I don't see a big issues here. :) Can can simplify this by:
mkdir build
pushd build
%meson ..
%ninja_build
%ninja_install
popd
?
instead of this I would prefer to have
%meson
%meson_build
%meson_install
But, yes this sounds cool.
> In case of angelscript it's:
> mkdir build
> pushd build
> %meson ../sdk/angelscript/projects/meson/
popd
%ninja_build -C build
%ninja_install -C build
>
> With some macro it would be just
> %global __srcdir sdk/angelscript/projects/meson
Without knowing background peculiarities, this sounds wrong to me. Can we
have this named like %meson_srcdir? From the "namespace" reasons ..
Or at least %vpath_builddir? So particular language specific macros could
take %vpath_builddir in future? %__srcdir does not say what it is used for.
%meson
%meson_build
%meson_install
Though I'm not sure you need to have the %__srcdir at all. Can't you have
parametrized %meson_vpath macro instead of %mason (so you say where build
directory actually is)?
but this applies for other buildsystems. For example, currently with
CMake almost everyone does
mkdir %{_target_platform}
pushd %{_target_platform}
%cmake ..
popd
%make_build -C %{_target_platform}
%make_install -C %{_target_platform}
Similarly here, if there was %vpath_builddir, %cmake could have been
hacked to support that.
Pavel