[gnutls-devel] GnuTLS | Draft: add meson (!1914)

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Eli Schwartz commented: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/merge_requests/1914#note_2273977377


I know that I said I like meson better than cmake :smile: but for the record I am consistent about my review beliefs as previously discussed at https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/merge_requests/1908#note_2268376645

> One of the reason that I contribute only small changes in this PR, that we can talk about and take it from here, instead to create a big PR that no one eventually will use it. (One of the reason why people will not investigate on the new build system).

I don't think that's the reason at all. I don't think a 4-line MR that only builds a single source file (and that source file is *gnulib* and not even gnutls itself) is a good basis for anything. In fact, I don't think there is enough of substance here to even talk about it.

I don't think such a tiny MR is helpful, nor that it can be merged. Additionally, it still relies on running ./configure to produce config.h, which IMO is a nonstarter.

Getting gnulib to build with full configuration probe handling would be a significantly more interesting first step -- which means porting the system checks from gnulib *.m4 files sufficient so that a new build system (meson or cmake) can create the correct config.h all on its own.

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