lfs-book/chapter08/meson.xml

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<sect1 id="ch-system-meson" role="wrap">
  <?dbhtml filename="meson.html"?>

  <sect1info condition="script">
    <productname>meson</productname>
    <productnumber>&meson-version;</productnumber>
    <address>&meson-url;</address>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Meson-&meson-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-meson">
    <primary sortas="a-Meson">Meson</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>Meson is an open source build system meant to be both extremely fast
    and as user friendly as possible.</para>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
      <seglistitem>
        <seg>&meson-fin-sbu;</seg>
        <seg>&meson-fin-du;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <tip revision="sysv">
      <para>This section is not strictly required for LFS if not using
      systemd. On the other hand, meson/ninja is a powerful build system,
      which is expected to be used more and more often. It is required for
      several packages in <ulink url="&blfs-book;">the BLFS
      book</ulink>.</para>
    </tip>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Meson</title>

<!-- Applied in 0.56.2
    <para>First, apply a patch that fixes an issue with pkgconfig files
    for static libraries:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&meson-fix-patch;</userinput></screen>
-->
    <para>Compile Meson with the following command:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="make">python3 setup.py build</userinput></screen>

    <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>

    <para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">python3 setup.py install --root=dest
cp -rv dest/* /</userinput></screen>

    <variablelist>
      <title>The meaning of the install parameters:</title>
      
      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>--root=dest</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>By default <command>python3 setup.py install</command>
          installs various files (such as man pages) into Python Eggs.
          With a specified root location, <command>setup.py</command> installs
          these files into a standard hierarchy.  Then the hierarchy
          can just be copied to the standard location.
        </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-meson" role="content">
    <title>Contents of Meson</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>meson</seg>
        <seg>/usr/lib/python&python-minor;/site-packages/meson-&meson-version;-py&python-minor;.egg-info and /usr/lib/python&python-minor;/site-packages/mesonbuild</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="meson">
		<term><command>meson</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>A high productivity build system</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-meson meson">
            <primary sortas="b-meson">meson</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

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