meson issue in romulus SDK

[Zane Shelley]

On 2019-05-01 15:39, Brad Bishop wrote:
> On Wed, May 01, 2019 at 10:40:35AM -0500, Zane Shelley wrote:
>> I'm just getting into meson. The manual for meson at mesonbuild.com 
>> indicates the command syntax is 'meson [command] [arguments] 
>> [options]', which is consistent with the version of meson I have 
>> installed on Ubuntu 18.04 ('meson -v' returns 0.45.1). However, when I 
>> source the romulus SDK that I built this morning ('meson -v' returns 
>> 0.49.2), it doesn't understand the [command] argument. For example:
>> 
>> $ meson init
>> 
>> ERROR: Neither directory contains a build file meson.build.
>> $ ls
>> init
>> 
>> I think this version of meson tried to build what is in ./ and put it 
>> in init/. Could anyone explain why this behavior is different?
>> 
>> -- - Zane
> 
> Hi Zane
> 
> For getting your feet wet with OpenBMC + meson could you forgo the SDK
> and cross compiling and use the docker CI environment?...SDK support 
> for
> meson is missing a few minor things right now.  Are you able to install
> docker somewhere?  Then you can do something like this:
> 
> export WORKSPACE=/home/andrewg/Code/ && \    export
> UNIT_TEST_PKG=obmc-ikvm && \
> ./openbmc-build-scripts/run-unit-test-docker.sh
> 
> thx - brad

Thanks, I will check it out.

-- 
- Zane