Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
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We had two big 'configuration_data' objects in meson config. (There are in fact
more. On is added in this series, and there's one for efi… But those others
have a handful variables only for specific purposes and don't matter). The two
sets are 'conf' and 'substs', and were inherited from the original autotools
system. In the past there was even a third set ('m4_defines'), but @yuwata
removed it in 348b44372f. And those two/three
systems had very similar data, but with different variable names, because of
historical reasons. They also used subtly different quoting (.set()
vs. .set10() vs. .set_quoted()), which was required because the templating
engines were not flexible enough. This meants we had more work when changing
things, and we needed to search for different variable names, etc.
With a more flexible templating engine we can do with just one
configuration_data object.
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