meson

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 8, 2017, at 09:02, Rainer Müller wrote:

> On 2017-11-08 14:04, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> Yes, we should prepare a PortGroup for it, I didn't start anything
>> yet, but I could look into it. It might help to start with some list
>> of packages that support it.
> 
> meson even prominently documents the use case for packaging:
> http://mesonbuild.com/Quick-guide.html#using-meson-as-a-distro-packager
> 
> It seems like meson respects the usual environment variables like CC,
> CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, etc. so a port group should mostly need to set the
> configure and build commands.

Well the one port currently using meson does more than that. It adds the meson and ninja build dependencies (since meson depends on ninja probably only the meson dependency is needed); sets the configure.cmd to meson and the build.cmd to ninja; adds args to make the build happen in an out-of-source build dir; adjusts how DESTDIR is supplied; and fixes a dylib install_name that ninja apparently generates incorrectly. The port doesn't supply any configure args so I don't know if those need to be handled differently. The port fails to build universal, so something is missing there.


https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/www/libhttpseverywhere/Portfile