Hi; we've just merged Paolo's patchset that converts the build system to use Meson. This should mostly be fairly seamless for the average developer (we hope) but there are a few things to be aware of:
* you probably want to do a distclean or otherwise do a clean build when you first update your git tree to a version of master with Meson (especially if you do in-tree builds) * out-of-tree builds should continue to work basically normally * we have retained compatibility for an "in-tree build" workflow where you run configure/make in the source tree, but this is now implemented by having configure create a build tree for you under-the-hood (but do consider switching to just doing out-of-tree builds) * you will need at least GNU Make 3.82 (everybody probably has this already unless you're on OSX, in which case install a make from homebrew or similar as the Apple-supplied system make is too old) * you need the Python 'setuptools' installed * we provide meson itself as a submodule, so you don't need to install that yourself * if you have patches in flight that made build-system related changes (eg adding new files) then you'll probably need to update them to work with meson; fingers crossed this should be straightforward * I will continue to work through the outstanding pullreqs on the list, but probably a bunch of them conflict with the meson switchover and submaintainers will need to respin them. Sorry about that. (I'll work through them and send out the usual "please fix" emails, but feel free to actively re-spin before I get to your pullreq if you know it's going to need work.) https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/Meson/Next has a summary of changes and is worth a quick scan through. We've tested this as best as we could, but there are probably going to be a few teething troubles -- please let us know if something seems to be broken. thanks -- PMM
