[PATCH rendercheck v3 4/4] Explain how to build using meson in the README.

[Emil Velikov]

On 31 March 2017 at 15:47, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 31 March 2017 at 14:25, Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom at imgtec.com> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 2017-03-29 13:19:35 -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
>>> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
>>> ---
>>>  README | 8 ++++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/README b/README
>>> index f5af0b0c64eb..2f8ec1ab0e46 100644
>>> --- a/README
>>> +++ b/README
>>> @@ -10,3 +10,11 @@ Tests currently include:
>>>  - Linear gradients
>>>  - Repeating sources/masks at POT and non-POT sizes
>>>  - Some regression tests for bugs from freedesktop.org bugzilla.
>>> +
>>> +rendercheck uses the Meson build system, which uses the "ninja" build
>>> +backend on Linux.  The three commands to configure (building into the
>>> +build/ directory), build, and install are:
>>> +
>>> +    meson build
>>> +    ninja -C build
>>> +    sudo ninja -C build install
>>
>> s,build,build/, on all three lines, to make it clear this is the dir
>> name, not some target?
>>
> That or save yourself some typing and use the following.
>
> meson build && cd build
If you've done OOT builds with autotools/cmake the following is even
more idiomatic

mkdir build && cd build
meson ..

Pardon, if it comes too much ;-)

Emil