New meta-build system for building the whole project

[metux]

Hello friends,

I'm currently working on a new meta-build system for building the whole project (incl. all dependencies, drivers) all at once:

https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/tree/refs/heads/wip/mpbt
https://github.com/metux/mpbt

What it does:

• automatically clone all required repos
• build them in the required order (dependency tree)
• puts everything into some configured prefix

The central configuration point is the "solution": it tells which target packages to build, where to put it all and a mapping of dependencies (maps between "provides" and actual packages). This way one can choose between various implementation of certain dependencies, eg. whether to take them from the host system (os-installed) or build on our own.

Still not quite finished (eg. yet lacking features switches, etc), docs yet missing, but already working nicely.

Once it's settled, we can use it for many kinds of different build scenarios, eg. local development, xorg-testing-ground, binary releases, etc, etc.

have fun,
--mtx

[metux]

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