D infrastructure: make/cmake -> Meson ?

[Ben Jones]

On Tuesday, 17 March 2020 at 18:21:43 UTC, Denis Feklushkin wrote:
> On Tuesday, 17 March 2020 at 18:14:50 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 05:53:46PM +0000, Denis Feklushkin via 
>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>> 
>>> Will community accept PRs for switching build of druntime, 
>>> Phobos, maybe DMD and maybe LDC from make/cmake to Meson 
>>> build system?
>> [...]
>>
>> The problem with replacement build systems is that everyone 
>> agrees that `make` sux, but everyone has a different opinion 
>> about what's the best replacement.  So while I applaud the 
>> effort to abandon make, unless you can get unanimous agreement 
>> on which replacement build system to use, it's probably not 
>> going to happen.  Unfortunately.
>
> Strictly, Meson can use make to build, so, make will be 
> presented, but its role will be decreased.
>
> The current situation with make is dead end: everyone sees that 
> there is a lot of copy-pasted code inside of make scripts, but 
> no one wants to deal with it. I believe that this suggests that 
> it is time to get rid of make.
>
> Against cmake community "voted": if we would have liked cmake 
> it would already have been merged from LDC branches.

Most of the Makefiles from dmd have been put into build.d and I 
think for all targets now, the makefile just forwards to build.d.

Might be worth doing something similar for druntime?  Seems 
easiest to convince people here to switch to D rather than 
something else.