gjs now relies entirely on introspection data to determine parent
types and implemented interfaces, so in order to have all methods
and properties resolve correctly, we must include the corresponding
GIRs of all types used.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/574
Using a single resource file for all JS sources saves a couple of
build system instructions, but has some serious downsides:
- bundling the entire shell code with the tools blows
up their size unnecessarily
- the tools are rebuilt unnecessarily for any shell
code change
Autotools was painful enough to let this slip, but with meson we
don't have any excuses - using the actual dependencies speeds up
the build a tiny bit and reduces the tools' sizes from over 2M
to about 50k.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/192
Simply reusing the same dependencies as gnome-shell itself not only
means that we link tons of stuff unnecessarily, but also that we
have to do the whole mutter rpath dance for nothing. Just use the
dependencies those executables actually need for a nice cleanup.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/192
So that we can be started by systemd --user, instead of gnome-session.
There are three units:
- gnome-shell.service: Start gnome-shell itself.
- gnome-shell-x11.target, gnome-shell-wayland.target: Sync points for
units that need to care if x11 or wayland is in use.
gnome-settings-daemon will use these, for example.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/138
Meson now warns when specifying the rpath in linker flags instead
of using the newly added build_rpath option - now that we already
depend on the latest release, there's no reason anyway to not use
the nicer syntax.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786343
We cannot rely on any build order, except the one we specify ourselves.
St depends on various generated files; other targets depend on those
files existing, so they can be included. There is no direct relationship
between targets and files, unless we declare a dependency, using the
Meson declare_dependency() constructor — which allows us to replace the
various `link_with` directives with the more appropriate `dependencies`
one, and also allows us to specify sources that must exist by the time
we build those targets.
Meson is on track to replace autotools as the build system of choice,
so support it in addition to autotools. If all goes well, we'll
eventually be able to drop the latter ...
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783229
