Re: Validating tarballs against git repositories
On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 11:17:21AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 08:44:36AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>...
> > Yes, perhaps it's time to switch to a different build system, although one
> > of the reasons I've personally been putting this off is that I do a lot of
> > feature probing for library APIs that have changed over time, and I'm not
> > sure how one does that in the non-Autoconf build systems. Meson's Porting
> > from Autotools [1] page, for example, doesn't seem to address this use
> > case at all.
>
> The other problem is that many of the other build systems are much
> slower than autoconf/makefile. (Note: I don't use libtool, because
> it's so d*mn slow.) Or building the alternate system might require a
> major bootstrapping phase, or requires downloading a JVM, etc.
The main selling point of Meson has been that it is a lot faster
than autotools.
> > Maybe the answer is "you should give up on portability to older systems as
> > the cost of having a cleaner build system," and that's not an entirely
> > unreasonable thing to say, but that's going to be a hard sell for a lot of
> > upstreams that care immensely about this.
>
> Yeah, that too. There are still people building e2fsprogs on AIX,
> Solaris, and other legacy Unix systems, and I'd hate to break them, or
> require a lot of pain for people who are building on MacPorts, et. al.
>...
Everything you mention should already be supported by Meson.
> - Ted
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Adrian
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