From: Patrick Steinhardt Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:23:00 GMT Subject: [PATCH RFC 1/2] INSTALL: recommend Meson instead of autoconf Message-ID: <20260304-pks-autoconf-deprecation-v1-1-f5b611b13138@pks.im> In-Reply-To: <20260304-pks-autoconf-deprecation-v1-0-f5b611b13138@pks.im> We're about to deprecate our autoconf build infrastructure, but we still mention it as part of our "INSTALL" file. Switch over to recommend Meson instead. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt --- INSTALL | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 54d7528f9e..a8b4c7f1b4 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -17,13 +17,12 @@ The beginning of the Makefile documents many variables that affect the way git is built. You can override them either from the command line, or in a config.mak file. -Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to -set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write instead +Alternatively you can use Meson to autoconfigure your system and set up install +paths, so you can write instead - $ make configure ;# as yourself - $ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself - $ make all doc ;# as yourself - # make install install-doc install-html;# as root + $ meson setup build -Dprefix=/usr ;# as yourself + $ meson compile -C build ;# as yourself + # meson install -C build ;# as root If you're willing to trade off (much) longer build time for a later faster git you can also do a profile feedback build with -- 2.53.0.697.g625c4fb2da.dirty