[OE-core] Switching GStreamer recipes from autotools to meson

[Alexander Kanavin]

By the way, if you don't mind, I would like to reassign the
mainteinrs.inc entry for the gstreamer recipes to you. You'll be
getting notifications from AUH when a new version of gstreamer is out
(with patches if it can be trivially updated to).

Alex

On Tue, 14 May 2019 at 12:21, Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 14 May 2019 at 10:19, Carlos Rafael Giani <dv at pseudoterminal.org> wrote:
> > GStreamer recipe upgrades to 1.16.0 have been sent in as a pull request
> > to meta-gstreamer1.0 . Once these are in, I'm considering to switch the
> > recipes to meson. Are there any potential issues with that? For example,
> > anything special about meson and GObject introspection I should know about?
>
> Actually, yes. Unlike autotools, meson does not have a standard option
> to enable/disable gobject-introspection, or gtk-doc.
> So most of the time you need to inherit the class (as before), and set
> GIR_MESON_OPTION to the name of the meson option that controls g-i,
> and/or GTKDOC_MESON_OPTION to the name of the option that controls
> gtk-doc.
> There are plenty of example in oe-core for this.
>
> Also, gstreamer recipes have a few patches that deal with
> autotools-specific g-i support, I guess those can be dropped.
>
> Alex