Tuesday, March 27, 2018

(Collection of stuff over a couple of days)

Does not start well for Meson:

ddd@turbo[meson] common> meson build
The Meson build system
Version: 0.44.1
Source dir: /home/ddd/Work/spice-meson/libs/common
Build dir: /home/ddd/Work/spice-meson/libs/common/build
Build type: native build

Meson encountered an error in file meson_options.txt, line 1, column 0:
Invalid kwargs for option "alignment-checks": "yield"

Removing yield from the meson_options.txt file leads to:

ddd@turbo[meson] common> meson build
The Meson build system
Version: 0.44.1
Source dir: /home/ddd/Work/spice-meson/libs/common
Build dir: /home/ddd/Work/spice-meson/libs/common/build
Build type: native build

Meson encountered an error in file meson.build, line 4, column 0:
Meson version is 0.44.1 but project requires >= 0.45.0.

A full log can be found at /home/ddd/Work/spice-meson/libs/common/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt

The log is not that helpful:

Build started at 2018-03-27T14:58:09.633207
Main binary: /usr/bin/python3
Python system: Linux
The Meson build system
Version: 0.44.1
Source dir: /home/ddd/Work/spice-meson/libs/common
Build dir: /home/ddd/Work/spice-meson/libs/common/build
Build type: native build

But the error is actually shown in the command output above: the version is incorrect.

Udpate manually to meson 0.45.1. Then the error is:

Dependency python3 found: NO

I have python3 installed, however:

ddd@turbo[meson] common> python3 --version
Python 3.6.4

What is missing is probably python3-devel. Indeed:

ddd@turbo[meson] common> meson build
The Meson build system
Version: 0.45.1
Source dir: /home/ddd/Work/spice-meson/libs/common
Build dir: /home/ddd/Work/spice-meson/libs/common/build
Build type: native build
Project name: spice-common
Native C compiler: cc (gcc 7.3.1 "cc (GCC) 7.3.1 20180130 (Red Hat 7.3.1-2)")
Build machine cpu family: x86_64
Build machine cpu: x86_64
Has header "alloca.h": YES
Has header "arpa/inet.h": YES
Has header "dlfcn.h": YES
Has header "inttypes.h": YES
Has header "malloc.h": YES
Has header "memory.h": YES
Has header "netinet/in.h": YES
Has header "stddef.h": YES
Has header "stdint.h": YES
Has header "stdlib.h": YES
Has header "strings.h": YES
Has header "string.h": YES
Has header "sys/socket.h": YES
Has header "sys/stat.h": YES
Has header "sys/types.h": YES
Has header "unistd.h": YES
Has header "vfork.h": NO
Checking for function "alloca": YES
Checking for function "dup2": YES
Checking for function "floor": YES
Checking for function "fork": YES
Checking for function "inet_ntoa": YES
Checking for function "memmove": YES
Checking for function "memset": YES
Checking for function "pow": YES
Checking for function "sqrt": YES
Checking for function "vfork": YES
Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (1.3.12)
Native dependency spice-protocol found: YES 0.12.14
Native dependency glib-2.0 found: YES 2.54.3
Native dependency gio-2.0 found: YES 2.54.3
Native dependency gthread-2.0 found: YES 2.54.3
Native dependency pixman-1 found: YES 0.34.0
Native dependency openssl found: YES 1.1.0g
Native dependency opus found: YES 1.2.1
Native dependency celt051 found: YES 0.5.1.3
Native dependency python3 found: YES 3.6
Native dependency libcacard found: YES 2.5.3
meson.build:157: WARNING: This project is only intended to be used as a subproject!
Program asciidoc found: YES (/usr/bin/asciidoc)
Configuring config.h using configuration
Build targets in project: 17
Found ninja-1.8.2 at /usr/bin/ninja

Timing comparisons

Building the SPICE server on Turbo, 5 builds to get an idea of the variation.