Hi there,
I found some extra time today so I thought I'd try moving my git
install over to using the new meson build system. Everything went
surprisingly smoothly, which I really appreciated, so thank you!
However, one thing that confused me was that the completions were never
installed automatically as part of `meson install`, even though
I specified them under the '-Dcontrib' option.
I just wanted to double check if I'm supposed to install them manually,
or if I missed enabling some options (I looked through the top-level
meson_options.txt and meson.build files and I don't think I did.)
I'm calling meson setup like so:
meson setup meson-git-build --prefix=/opt/personal/git/versions/2.49.0 \
--libdir=/opt/personal/git/versions/2.49.0/lib --buildtype=release \
--wrap-mode=nofallback --backend=ninja \
-Dmacos_use_homebrew_gettext=false -Dcontrib=completion,subtree
And I do see both subtree and completion modules being built in the
'meson compile' logs and indeed, I see that git-subtree was
automatically installed, as expected:
Installing contrib/subtree/git-subtree to /opt/personal/git/versions/2.49.0/libexec/git-core
...So I would have expected the completion module to be automatically
installed as well, but this didn't happen. Rather, it merely got copied
to the internal build folder:
[669/669] /opt/personal/meson/bin/meson --internal copy ../contrib/completion/git-completion.tcsh contrib/completion/git-completion.tcsh
Of course, I can manually install these to the appropriate locations,
but just checking to make sure I didn't miss anything.
Cheers,
--
Akshay
