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| author | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2021-05-16 15:20:46 +0200 |
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| committer | Yu Watanabe <watanabe.yu+github@gmail.com> | 2021-05-19 03:24:43 +0200 |
| commit | 44ff8df77748124eb5c5f257eb585e9da26225d8 (patch) | |
| tree | 94dca4f697449dc22ce5e669e2cd7c63109b0fad /meson.build | |
| parent | meson: use jinja2 for README (diff) | |
| download | systemd-44ff8df77748124eb5c5f257eb585e9da26225d8.tar.xz systemd-44ff8df77748124eb5c5f257eb585e9da26225d8.zip | |
Drop dependency on m4
m4 was hugely popular in the past, because autotools, automake, flex, bison and
many other things used it. But nowadays it much less popular, and might not even
be installed in the buildroot. (m4 is small, so it doesn't make a big difference.)
(FWIW, Fedora dropped make from the buildroot now,
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Remove_make_from_BuildRoot. I think it's
reasonable to assume that m4 will be dropped at some point too.)
The main reason to drop m4 is that the syntax is not very nice, and we should
minimize the number of different syntaxes that we use. We still have two
(configure_file() with @FOO@ and jinja2 templates with {{foo}} and the
pythonesque conditional expressions), but at least we don't need m4 (with
m4_dnl and `quotes').
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| -rw-r--r-- | meson.build | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build index c98c4c1e7d..f43e9a775c 100644 --- a/meson.build +++ b/meson.build @@ -606,7 +606,6 @@ echo = find_program('echo') test = find_program('test') sed = find_program('sed') awk = find_program('awk') -m4 = find_program('m4') stat = find_program('stat') ln = find_program('ln') git = find_program('git', required : false) @@ -1650,7 +1649,6 @@ generate_gperfs = find_program('tools/generate-gperfs.py') make_autosuspend_rules_py = find_program('tools/make-autosuspend-rules.py') make_directive_index_py = find_program('tools/make-directive-index.py') make_man_index_py = find_program('tools/make-man-index.py') -meson_apply_m4 = find_program('tools/meson-apply-m4.sh') meson_render_jinja2 = find_program('tools/meson-render-jinja2.py') update_dbus_docs_py = find_program('tools/update-dbus-docs.py') update_hwdb_sh = find_program('tools/update-hwdb.sh') |