Automake and autoconf are impossible to fully understand and Meson now provides
everything we need for a much smaller, faster, and more understandable build.
See http://mesonbuild.com/ for more information.
My compiler doesn't understand -Wno-discard-qualifiers so drop it and
fix the warnings instead. I think it is better to explicitly fix them
anyways instead of just to ignore the discarded const qualifier in
general.
I think the option should be avoided in hand-written code. The warning
is there for a reason: To protect you from possibly overwriting data you
expect to not be modified when passing pointers around.
See https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41215
failed to open plugin /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/fwupd-plugins-2/libfu_plugin_udev.so:
failed to open plugin: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/fwupd-plugins-2/libfu_plugin_udev.so:
undefined symbol: g_udev_device_get_property
This is a large commit that removes all the providers and turns them into
plugins. I think having both providers _and_ plugins was super confusing.
Plugins are loaded at runtime so you could in theory develop a new plugin
without putting it in the fwupd source tree, although there are no installed
headers or PC files as I'm not sure it's a good idea at this stage.
This commit moves all the per-provider docs, tests, notes, debug dumps and test
data to plugin-specific directories -- these also allows the plugin author to
"own" more of the source tree so we don't enforce fu- prefixes and the style
guide everywhere.
This allows us to run the same action on all the plugins in the future, so we
could have a prepare(FuPlugin, FuDevice) and cleanup(FuPlugin, FuDevice) run
on *all* plugins, so doing an update using one plugin would allow us to work
around hardware quirks in other plugins.
If I've broken your out-of-tree provider it's trivial to port to the new API
with sed and a fixed up build file. If you need help please let me know.
