From 1ccdf467fb91639963a05f16469c173078e6f167 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jehan Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 15:04:44 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] INSTALL, NEWS: the macOS build is now officially using meson too. See MR gimp-macos-build!97. --- INSTALL.in | 19 ++++++++++--------- NEWS | 5 +++-- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL.in b/INSTALL.in index df98ce667e..5e32bb2c0e 100644 --- a/INSTALL.in +++ b/INSTALL.in @@ -204,11 +204,12 @@ header files installed. 17. Configure GIMP by running the `configure' script. You may want to pass some options to it, see below. - Note that for Windows, we now recommend officially to build GIMP - with `meson` instead of `autotools` (`configure` script, make, - etc.). Therefore further build instructions below must be converted - as their meson command equivalents. On all other platforms, the - autotools are still recommended and more complete. + + Note that for Windows and macOS, we now recommend officially to + build GIMP with `meson` instead of `autotools` (`configure` script, + make, etc.). Therefore further build instructions below must be + converted as their meson command equivalents. On all other + platforms, the autotools are still recommended and more complete. 18. Build GIMP by running `make'. The use of GNU make is recommended. If you need to tweak the build to make it work with other flavours @@ -301,10 +302,10 @@ compilation and installation output is not shown. Note: if building from repository (not tarballs), you may notice a meson build system is also available in the repository. It is not the main -build system and is not recommended for stable packages as it still has -several known issues, including build flag errors leading to crashes and -missing features. -We only invite contributors to use the meson build if they wish to help +build system and is not recommended for stable packages other than on +macOS and Windows, as it still has several known issues, including +missing or broken features. +Yet we invite contributors to use the meson build if they wish to help with debugging. The `configure' script examines your system, and adapts GIMP to run on diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d0842be739..036b0d5cc7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -140,8 +140,9 @@ Build: - Flatpak manifest upgraded with new version constraints so that the flatpak-external-data-checker does not warn wrongly on major update when we don't want to or can't update immediately. - - meson is now recommended for Windows builds and our official - installer is now built (still from CI) with meson. + - meson is now recommended for Windows and macOS builds and our + official installer and DMG respectively are now built (still from + CI) with meson. - Flatpak manifest improved with version constraints for dependencies where we should not update just yet (hence don't want new version notifications).