Re: Debian packaging with meson
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 11:29:35PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 at 18:08:01 -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> > GNOME 3.24 modules have begun including meson build scripts.
>
> It looks as though Meson approximately follows the Autotools-like
> build pipeline that dh assumes, so something like this should work:
> override_dh_auto_build:
> cd debian/build && ninja -v
>
> override_dh_auto_test:
> cd debian/build && ninja test
>
> override_dh_auto_install:
> cd debian/build && DESTDIR=${CURDIR}/debian/tmp ninja install
Note that this won't work unless we rename ninja-build to ninja.
That's actually possible now -- I've RoQAed RM of ninja (#848359) so the
name is free for reuse, but the renaming can't commence until Stretch is
released.
(I haven't ever used meson nor ninja{,-build}, so I don't know more.)
Meow!
--
Autotools hint: to do a zx-spectrum build on a pdp11 host, type:
./configure --host=zx-spectrum --build=pdp11
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