[OE-core] [PATCH] mesa: upgrade 18.1.9 -> 18.3.3

[Otavio Salvador]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 12:36 PM Böszörményi Zoltán via
Openembedded-core <openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
>
> 2019. 02. 15. 14:26 keltezéssel, Alexander Kanavin írta:
> > On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 14:21, Fabio Berton
> > <fabio.berton at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> >> In my opinion, there is no relation with an update and change build
> >> system, once we can use mesa 18.3.3 without meson.
> >
> > Please see:
> > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-19.0-Deprecates-Autotools
> >
> > We might as well switch to meson now. The patches are ready and
> > (mostly) working.
>
> I have read the mesa-dev list constantly regarding this change.
>
> The deprecation process was painful and issues in the meson
> build system still turn up occasionally.
>
> 19.0 will still have a configure option to opt-in for autotools.
> In this upcoming release they have worked out all known issues
> for meson but I would in no way want to use meson for older main
> releases because these changes are not backported offically.
>
> So, either keep autotools for 8.3.3 or wait for 9.0 and switch to meson.

If the switch is made in another commit, we can easily revert it in
case it causes issues.

I don't see urgency in to do the convertion so if there is more people
which wishes to keep autotools for this release, we can skip it for
19.0.1 upgrade.

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