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

[Khem Raj]

On 5/14/19 1:19 AM, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote:
>  From what I have seen, meson support is stable now.
> 
> Also, in GStreamer, autotools is now considered a legacy build system, 
> and will be removed in future released. From 
> https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.16/ :
> 
>  > The Meson build system build is now feature-complete (*) and it is 
> now the recommended build system on all platforms and also used by 
> Cerbero to build GStreamer on all platforms. The Autotools build is 
> scheduled to be removed in the next cycle. Developers who currently use 
> gst-uninstalled should move to gst-build. The build option naming has 
> been cleaned up and made consistent and there are now feature options to 
> enable/disable plugins and various other features on a case-by-case 
> basis. (*) with the exception of plugin docs which will be handled 
> differently in future
> 
> 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?
> 

are you doing the 1.16 upgrade to OE-Core as well ?