From 611b1de441a54d3ed7781ca0a26b51b6cb9c45cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jade Lovelace Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2024 02:07:57 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add meson release note Change-Id: I4d2d08dc77a3ab4dce9fbb129c1487aa8c9f1722 --- doc/manual/rl-next/meson.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/manual/rl-next/meson.md diff --git a/doc/manual/rl-next/meson.md b/doc/manual/rl-next/meson.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f836d192f --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/manual/rl-next/meson.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +--- +synopsis: Lix is built with meson +# and many more +cls: [580, 627, 628, 707, 711, 712, 719] +credits: [Qyriad, horrors, jade, 9999years, winter] +category: Packaging +--- + +Lix is built exclusively with the meson build system thanks to a huge team-wide +effort, and the legacy `make`/`autoconf` based build system has been removed +altogether. This improves maintainability of Lix, enables things like saving +20% of compile times with precompiled headers, and generally makes the build +less able to produce obscure incremental compilation bugs. + +Non-Nix-based downstream packaging needs rewriting accordingly.