build: Replace Autotools with Meson

Quick rundown of benefits:

- Much faster:
  - Autotools (with autogen): 22 seconds
  - Meson: 7 seconds
  - Meson (with ccache): 2 seconds

- Simpler:
  - ~1000 lines smaller
  - Single simple language

- Potentially better Windows (Visual Studio) support

What is not done:

- Complete Windows support
- OSX support (easy)

Closes #2013
Closes #1937
Closes #1803

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 124 deletions

diff --git a/m4/ax_check_enable_debug.m4 b/m4/ax_check_enable_debug.m4
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index f99d75fe..00000000
--- a/m4/ax_check_enable_debug.m4
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@@ -1,124 +0,0 @@
-# ===========================================================================
-#   http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/ax_check_enable_debug.html
-# ===========================================================================
-#
-# SYNOPSIS
-#
-#   AX_CHECK_ENABLE_DEBUG([enable by default=yes/info/profile/no], [ENABLE DEBUG VARIABLES ...], [DISABLE DEBUG VARIABLES NDEBUG ...], [IS-RELEASE])
-#
-# DESCRIPTION
-#
-#   Check for the presence of an --enable-debug option to configure, with
-#   the specified default value used when the option is not present.  Return
-#   the value in the variable $ax_enable_debug.
-#
-#   Specifying 'yes' adds '-g -O0' to the compilation flags for all
-#   languages. Specifying 'info' adds '-g' to the compilation flags.
-#   Specifying 'profile' adds '-g -pg' to the compilation flags and '-pg' to
-#   the linking flags. Otherwise, nothing is added.
-#
-#   Define the variables listed in the second argument if debug is enabled,
-#   defaulting to no variables.  Defines the variables listed in the third
-#   argument if debug is disabled, defaulting to NDEBUG.  All lists of
-#   variables should be space-separated.
-#
-#   If debug is not enabled, ensure AC_PROG_* will not add debugging flags.
-#   Should be invoked prior to any AC_PROG_* compiler checks.
-#
-#   IS-RELEASE can be used to change the default to 'no' when making a
-#   release.  Set IS-RELEASE to 'yes' or 'no' as appropriate. By default, it
-#   uses the value of $ax_is_release, so if you are using the AX_IS_RELEASE
-#   macro, there is no need to pass this parameter.
-#
-#     AX_IS_RELEASE([git-directory])
-#     AX_CHECK_ENABLE_DEBUG()
-#
-# LICENSE
-#
-#   Copyright (c) 2011 Rhys Ulerich <rhys.ulerich@gmail.com>
-#   Copyright (c) 2014, 2015 Philip Withnall <philip@tecnocode.co.uk>
-#
-#   Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are
-#   permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice
-#   and this notice are preserved.
-
-#serial 5
-
-AC_DEFUN([AX_CHECK_ENABLE_DEBUG],[
-    AC_BEFORE([$0],[AC_PROG_CC])dnl
-    AC_BEFORE([$0],[AC_PROG_CXX])dnl
-    AC_BEFORE([$0],[AC_PROG_F77])dnl
-    AC_BEFORE([$0],[AC_PROG_FC])dnl
-
-    AC_MSG_CHECKING(whether to enable debugging)
-
-    ax_enable_debug_default=m4_tolower(m4_normalize(ifelse([$1],,[no],[$1])))
-    ax_enable_debug_is_release=m4_tolower(m4_normalize(ifelse([$4],,
-                                                              [$ax_is_release],
-                                                              [$4])))
-
-    # If this is a release, override the default.
-    AS_IF([test "$ax_enable_debug_is_release" = "yes"],
-      [ax_enable_debug_default="no"])
-
-    m4_define(ax_enable_debug_vars,[m4_normalize(ifelse([$2],,,[$2]))])
-    m4_define(ax_disable_debug_vars,[m4_normalize(ifelse([$3],,[NDEBUG],[$3]))])
-
-    AC_ARG_ENABLE(debug,
-	[AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-debug=]@<:@yes/info/profile/no@:>@,[compile with debugging])],
-	[],enable_debug=$ax_enable_debug_default)
-
-    # empty mean debug yes
-    AS_IF([test "x$enable_debug" = "x"],
-      [enable_debug="yes"])
-
-    # case of debug
-    AS_CASE([$enable_debug],
-      [yes],[
-	AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
-	CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -g -O0"
-	CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -g -O0"
-	FFLAGS="${FFLAGS} -g -O0"
-	FCFLAGS="${FCFLAGS} -g -O0"
-	OBJCFLAGS="${OBJCFLAGS} -g -O0"
-      ],
-      [info],[
-	AC_MSG_RESULT(info)
-	CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -g"
-	CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -g"
-	FFLAGS="${FFLAGS} -g"
-	FCFLAGS="${FCFLAGS} -g"
-	OBJCFLAGS="${OBJCFLAGS} -g"
-      ],
-      [profile],[
-	AC_MSG_RESULT(profile)
-	CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -g -pg"
-	CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -g -pg"
-	FFLAGS="${FFLAGS} -g -pg"
-	FCFLAGS="${FCFLAGS} -g -pg"
-	OBJCFLAGS="${OBJCFLAGS} -g -pg"
-	LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -pg"
-      ],
-      [
-	AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
-	dnl Ensure AC_PROG_CC/CXX/F77/FC/OBJC will not enable debug flags
-	dnl by setting any unset environment flag variables
-	AS_IF([test "x${CFLAGS+set}" != "xset"],
-	  [CFLAGS=""])
-	AS_IF([test "x${CXXFLAGS+set}" != "xset"],
-	  [CXXFLAGS=""])
-	AS_IF([test "x${FFLAGS+set}" != "xset"],
-	  [FFLAGS=""])
-	AS_IF([test "x${FCFLAGS+set}" != "xset"],
-	  [FCFLAGS=""])
-	AS_IF([test "x${OBJCFLAGS+set}" != "xset"],
-	  [OBJCFLAGS=""])
-      ])
-
-    dnl Define various variables if debugging is disabled.
-    dnl assert.h is a NOP if NDEBUG is defined, so define it by default.
-    AS_IF([test "x$enable_debug" = "xyes"],
-      [m4_map_args_w(ax_enable_debug_vars, [AC_DEFINE(], [,,[Define if debugging is enabled])])],
-      [m4_map_args_w(ax_disable_debug_vars, [AC_DEFINE(], [,,[Define if debugging is disabled])])])
-    ax_enable_debug=$enable_debug
-])