Changeset f66b2ee

Timestamp:

04/01/2019 09:12:06 PM (5 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 9.0, 9.1, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

e606443a

Parents:

1714bd38

Message:

Simplify instructions for finding available meon options.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@21420 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Location:

introduction

Files:

• important/building-notes.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)

introduction/important/building-notes.xml

@@ -579 +579 @@
       <para>
         Meson has some similarities to CMake, but many differences. To get
-        details of the defines that you may wish to change ypu need to do:
-      </para>
-
-<screen><userinput>mkdir build
-cd    build
-meson ..
-meson configure | less</userinput></screen>
-
-      <para>
-        After identifying what to set, meson then needs to be reconfigured.
-        For example:
-      </para>
-
-<screen><userinput>meson --prefix=/usr -Dbuildtype=&lt;type&gt; -Dother_option=false --reconfigure</userinput></screen>
-
-      <para>
-        Alternatively, you could remove the build directory where you did this,
-        recreate it, and then run meson with the desired options.
+        details of the defines that you may wish to change you can look at
+        <filename>meson_options.txt</filename> which is usually in the
+         top-level directory.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        If you have already configured the package by running
+        <command>meson</command> and now wish to change one or more settings,
+        you can either remove the build directory, recreate it, and use the
+        altered options, or within the build directory run <command>meson
+        configure</command>, e.g. to set an option:
+      </para>
+
+<screen><userinput>meson configure -D&lt;some_option&gt;=true</userinput></screen>
+
+      <para>
+        If you do that, the file <filename>meson-private/cmd_line.txt</filename>
+        will show the <emphasis>last</emphasis> commands which were used.
       </para>
 

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -45 +45 @@
       <para>April 1st, 2019</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Improve the details of how to find the available Meson
+          options in "Working with different build systems", thanks to Brendan
+          L. Fixes <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;11872">#11872</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Update to vala-0.44.2. Fixes