[OE-core] Meson support in oe-core

[Alexander Kanavin]

On 08/07/2017 03:09 PM, Jussi Kukkonen wrote:
> New feature release, see
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2017-June/034286.html
> for the major features. This is the last major release to support
> autotools.

Looks like 2017 is when autotools is finally being replaced en masse by 
various projects, particularly those related to gnome stack. Even 
relatively large projects like gstreamer are going forward with it. The 
replacement is meson, whose advantages over autotools are major, and 
disadvantages are minor:
http://mesonbuild.com/

Ross and I have done some work on bringing meson support into oe-core. 
One recipe has been fully migrated to meson (including tricker bits like
gtkdoc, and gobject introspection). Going forward that will be the 
default when a project has both that and autotools, and of course we 
should be ready for the situation when autotools support is removed from 
the upstream altogether.

http://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded-contrib/log/?h=akanavin/meson
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=akanavin/meson



Alex